Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern Syria, one of four nations carved out of old Syria since World War I,* is only slightly larger than Missouri. Of its 72,000 square miles, one-third is desert or mountain, another third is steppe, which furnishes seasonal pasturage for Bedouins. Save for a bit of the Euphrates Valley and the wheat-growing plains of the extreme northeast, most of Syria's fertile land lies in a narrow, well-watered belt paralleling the Mediterranean coast. So do the nation's two biggest cities (each about 500,000 population): the commercial center of Aleppo and colorful Damascus...
...signed on the basis of a demonstration record, loaded aboard the Victor March of Dimes train for a tour of the country. Her high, nasal voice and tub-thumping beat went over big at whistle stops and local auditoriums. Two of her singles-My Boy Elvis and Little Bit-got on the charts, and with her latest disk, Love Me to Pieces, just out, Victor is publicizing her as the "female Presley...
Universal, the studio that first found Lon Chaney popping up in practically any male bit role it was casting, has done justice to the once-famed star it detected...
...from Congress in 1954 a grudging bit of price-support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...
...longer use supports to try to make farming profitable even for an inefficient farmer on an obsolete small farm. Supports would serve only to prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields to more profitable crops. In time-he hopes -supply would come into balance with demand, acreage controls would fade away, and the flow of wheat into Government storage would...