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...minimum standard of living below which they will allow none to sink. They also like to claim that they will provide the same social services at less cost, which is electoral nonsense. One idea that the Tory brain-trusters are now considering is to make a charge for inexpensive medical drugs or treatment for minor ailments, but to give expensive drugs and major attention free to those who cannot afford...
...help meet Europe's oil deficit. Political upheavals are not the only changes. Soaring costs have made the hunt for oil enormously expensive. Recently, Swensrud launched Gulf on the biggest wildcat hunt in the U.S., exploring 800,000 acres leased from the State of Mississippi.* Gulf may well sink millions without result. But Swensrud is not perturbed. Gulf, a pioneer in the science of petroleum geophysics, has helped trim the odds against finding oil from 15-to-1 to a mere 5-to-1. To an oilman, that's a good...
Reparations. "Japan's aggression caused tremendous cost, losses and suffering . . . One hundred thousand million dollars would be a modest estimate of the whole . . . [But] if the treaty validated . . . monetary reparations claims against Japan . . . the incentive of her people would be destroyed and they would sink into a misery of body and spirit which would make them an easy prey to . . . totalitarian demagogues . . . Such a treaty . . . would promote disunity among many of the allied powers. There would be bitter competition for . . . an illusory pot of gold...
...Clouds. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts at other products (aluminum skiffs, automobile fenders), Douglas decided to sink or swim with aviation, began his comeback with his DC-6, his bigger C124 Globemaster, which can carry everything from trucks and bulldozers to heavy artillery, and AD attack bombers for the Navy...
...live up to the motto: 'Since you eat, why shouldn't I? Therefore let's all eat in the name of the Lord.' " Noisy Tenants. The Roman Catholic bishops of Rimini and Montefeltro (San Marino is almost due east of Florence) called the casino a sink of iniquity. Italy's Demo-Christian government discovered that San Marino had become a haven for Italian tax dodgers and quick divorces. Tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who dislikes both Communists and gamblers, put border guards at all roads leading into San Marino, had them politely but slowly examine...