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...Passed (78-0) a $3.6 billion Agricultural Department appropriation, which restored the $500 million soil-bank program slashed out by the House at the height of its economy mood. The bill goes to a Senate-House conference where the Senate version is expected to prevail...
...speechless." But the students and veterans who had led the rioting were neither speechless nor ashamed. In a joint statement they proclaimed: "People of Algiers, once again you have displayed in a striking fashion your anger at too many unpunished crimes, and your determination to remain French on French soil...
BUMPER WHEAT CROP is due despite retirement of more than 12 million acres into soil bank, may total only 3% less than 1956, thus piling up bigger surpluses. Farmers retired poor land, are producing more on good land, while drought-breaking rains have already pushed winter wheat harvest 27% above ten-year average of 18.6 bushels per acre...
...sandy tip of a new superhighway pushing across the hills from Richmond to the industrial town of Crockett, an army of mammoth machines comes noisily to life; their motors growl and their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before the machines looms a 500-ft. hill that stood in the way of the inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific railroad and later a highway to slink humbly around...
...most effective ways of breeding enmity among friendly nations is to station the troops of one country on the soil of another in peacetime. The problem is compounded when the foreign troops claim extraterritorial privileges and hold themselves not subject to local law. In the overall grand strategy of the cold war, the U.S. has sought to devise a new and workable solution to the old problems: a worldwide network of "status-of-forces agreements" designed to cover the bulk of 700,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed in 49 friendly countries...