Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agricultural economists hurried to explain it once again. "Parity," one- said, "means a price for the farmer's product which will give it an exchange value, for things the farmer needs to buy, equivalent to that in a specified base period. The base period used as a par is the five prewar years...
First step in using the formula is to determine a base price for the 1909-14 period. This is done by averaging farm prices reported to the Department of Agriculture during these years. For example, cotton averaged 12.4? a pound; wheat 88.4?a bushel; corn 64.2? a bushel...
Traveling through the sixth Naval district on his first service assignment, Mundorff was next attached to the In Shore Patrol Base, Mayport. Florida. After working with the NROTC Unit at Georgia Tech, he organized the original V-12 Unit at that University...
...brightest sport in the Crimson picture, with at least two positions pretty well sewed up at the moment. Bill Fitz, a veteran of the '42 summer team, and the first man to play. Varsity ball under the wartime Freshman eligibility, looms are one of the best first base prospects in many years, while Don Swegan, of football and basketball fame, is holding forth at shortstop...
Jack forte, younger brother of the '12'43 football captain, is leading the field in the competition for the second base post that he held last spring and summer, while John Coppinger, also a holdover from last year, is contending with Paul Butler, who played on the '44 Freshman squad, fear the keystone sack...