Word: american
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, the American Farm Bureau Federation; the third, the left-wing Farmers' Union, supports the Brannan plan...
...Dependence on subsidies or production payments in lieu of a fair market price as a method of achieving [a fair farm] income is unsound and would impose a burden on the whole American economy through tax liability which would raise all costs of production-thereby lowering purchasing power and ultimately leading to a lower standard of living for the rank & file of consumers. [It] would place farmers at the mercy of congressional appropriations for their income...
...last week, some 6% of all the oil rigs on the North American continent had moved to Scurry County, 200 wells were already in and producing at the maximum allowable rate of 35,374 barrels a day, 133 new ones were in the process of drilling, and wildcatters were everywhere. Said one old Texas oilworker, who had followed the rigs through all the great Texas fields: "This is the biggest thing yet. It's the last time I'll see it in my lifetime. They just don't come like this very often...
...statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...
...Luce stated at the outset that the American capitalistic economy, with all its defects, is closer to the spirit of Christianity than either socialism or communism. The Rev. Dr. Niebuhr replied that a proper application of the "Love thy neighbor" ideal was the decisive element in making any governmental system truly Christian in spirit...