Word: belt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under a slightly lower price prop, which Benson obligingly extended to such "noncompliance" corn three crops ago. After 1956 the extra price prop was never guaranteed before the crop was planted, but the farmers' expectations encouraged surplus production. Last week, before the vote, word went around the corn belt that Benson would not support noncompliance corn next year if farmers rejected his plan. Thus many who approved his new system felt that they were voting for continued broad, if lower, price props, against his threat to cut subsidies...
...Righteous China Daily News), the island's only newspaper. All night long the engine had wheezed, supplying erratic power for the lights by which Chinese compositors handset four tabloid-size pages of type. The little engine rested briefly while a workman slipped the power take-off belt from the generator to an ancient flat-bed press. Then it snuffled back to life, to begin the daily press run of 7,000 copies...
...first detailed description of the belt of lethal radiation that swathes the earth was given last week by Dr. James A. Van Allen of the State University of Iowa. Often called the "Van Allen radiation," the belt was discovered by the instruments that the Army's satellites carried into space...
Stars of Jazz (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Lizzie Miles at 63 can still belt them into submission with a few strokes, and Joe Yukl's sextet is in attendance to perform a gentler kind of operation on Royal Garden Bines and Basin Street Blues...
...Part of their success unquestionably came from the moderate congressional record they had written under Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. During the campaign, when President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon flailed at the Democrats as radicals, the near-unanimous Democratic reply was "Who? Me?" Few if any farm-belt Democrats campaigned for a return to Henry Wallace's Milk for Hottentots days or for the Truman Administration's Brannan Plan. Few marched to victory as all-out defenders of labor faith; indeed the great majority argued for reasonable labor reform. Where Democrats did get tagged as horseback...