Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHESF began as a gleam in the eye of Pernambuco's Senator Apolonio Sales, Minister of Agriculture under the Vargas dictatorship. Sales saw Paulo Afonso as part of a larger, TVA-style plan for development of the whole valley, with irrigation, flood-control and sanitation schemes. He was swept out of office in the avalanche that toppled Vargas, but not before both CHESF and the Sao Francisco Valley Authority (for which plans are still incomplete) had been...
Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had some good news from his physician: his left eye, snagged with a fishhook last April, had begun to regain its sight...
...Riviera, Amateur Painter Merle Oberon dropped into Lord Beaverbrook's villa to show one of her seascapes to Amateur Painter Winston Churchill. "What are those little white specks?" asked Churchill. "Sailing boats," replied Merle, unabashed. Said Churchill, recovering gallantly: "You have a nice eye for color." Then the two looped arms and went off for a swim...
...catch the farmer's eye, Merrill Lynch posted stock certificates of companies as familiar to farmers as Sears, Roebuck & Co., General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Corn Products Refining Co., and pointed out that the shares have been paying 5 to 7%. Though Merrill Lynch was careful not to draw the comparison, this is far bigger than the return that farmers get from savings banks...
...Vandeveer is now a crusader for new tax laws that will encourage small business to stay in business. Says he: "I suggest that it will be worthwhile to turn the Government's inquiring eye on itself -and determine how the government's . . . bodies contribute to the delinquency of small business." But reforms, if any, will not do him any good, he says; "neither . . . investigations, decrees nor edicts . . . can bring me back to life as a competitive factor in the oil marketing business...