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Third step is to adjust the 1909-14 base period prices by the index of prices paid by the farmer. Thus the parity price for cotton in March was 1.79 times 12.4? , or 22.2? a pound; parity price for wheat was 1.79 times 88.4?, or $1.58 a bushel; for corn...
...with a counter-threat. Under the presidency of Foreign Minister Eugenio Silva Peña, independent planters had discussed a new marketing cooperative to export bananas independently of United Fruit. Once, that would have signaled war without question. Now there would probably be a compromise. Explained Sam Zemurray: "We adjust...
...experience, as a pharmacist's mate and ex-instructor of college history, to find that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were not those who had a broad educational background, but rather, those who didn't know any better...
...Navy), Captain Mac gave a newsman a glimpse of the postwar course she plans to steer. She was full of what the WAVES had taught her. Said she: "I am more enthusiastic than ever about liberal education. I found that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that. But it was true of the people who were in dull, uninspiring work on unglamorous shore duty...
...organization, be it government, navy, commercial or educational, will from time to time need to adjust itself to charging conditions. It is only by this process that we eliminate the old and adopt the new. Commodore Strauss has vigorously and successfully introduced and advocated new ideas in order that the Navy may be better able to meet its changing and increasing obligations...