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...people believe in getting rid of Reds, he said, "then their answer is to keep the Republicans in power so we may continue to clean out the Augean stables." He identified himself as the chief stable boy: "Now Democrat office seekers . . . have been proclaiming that McCarthyism is the issue in this campaign. In a way, I guess, it is, because Republican control of the Senate determines whether I shall continue as chairman of the investigating committee...
...Canadian government, which regards a passport simply as a proof of citizenship, was well aware of Rose's departure. Explained an official: "If he never comes back, we're well rid...
Bargain Day. The dairy industry has developed one of the most ambitious plans to get rid of the enormous surpluses now held by the Government. It suggests that the Government sell back to the trade, at a loss, its entire stock of dairy products (the loss leader: 250 million Ibs. of surplus butter). Then distributors, presumably, would resell it to the public in a giant bargain sale...
...price-prop loans and farm products, an alltime record. Among the stocks on hand: 426 million bu. of wheat v. 133 million last year, 457 million bu. of corn v. 280 million in 1952, 426 million Ibs. of dried milk v. 31 million. In an effort to get rid of the surpluses, the U.S. is willing to sell $130 million worth for soft currencies. Britain has agreed to take $20 million worth of tobacco; West Germany will, take:-as a gift-$15 million worth of soybeans and tobacco. But the rest of Europe, fearful of U.S. dumping, will have none...
...this gives the hero any headaches, he easily gets rid of them with a packet of bromides about the impossibility of compromising with evil...