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...Chair Votes Aye." On the second key vote, to fix the support level on wheat, pressures from the stubbles cut hard into the Administration's ranks. Six farm belt Republicans (Colorado's Allott, Kansas' Carlson and Schoeppel, Nebraska's Curtis and Hruska, Wisconsin's Wiley) who had voted for flexible supports on the other basic crops, ran for cover and plumped for rigid props under wheat. Five Senators (Democrats Byrd of Virginia, Neely...
...shipmate in the 5th Marines of Laurence (What Price Glory?) Stallings and John W. (Fix Bayonets) Thomason...
...tapped their guest for advice and know-how. Serving willingly (and without fee), Lilienthal briefly studied the valley and recommended the creation of a developmental agency. Since then, the Cauca Valley Corp., working closely with a mission from the World Bank, has been gathering the engineering data needed to fix its own goal and methods. The objective, as finally visualized, became nothing less than a quick and dramatic boost in the standard of living of the valley's 3,000,000 people, to be achieved mainly by power production and control over crop-destroying floods, but also by related...
This problem of existing interests occurs in other forms. The non-resident landlord wants to keep milking his holdings. He is vehement when the city offers to tear them down. But he is not nearly so outspoken as the resident who is told to fix his home, at his own expense, in order that its value, and its taxes, should rise. In Boston, Mayor Hynes has promised not to raise taxes on rehabilitated housing, but he will not be mayor forever...
...Thomson now seems to have appealed to Washington for help. For when the past president of the Conservative Club sought to have Senator Bridges speak under its auspices, instead of the Political Forum's, the spokesman for the National Committee told him to "play ball with the HYRC and fix everything up with John Thomson...