Word: comly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Congressmen had pressured CCC to buy the seed from farmers at a support price of $46.50 a ton, higher than the local open-market price of $45 and under. Producers were, of course, the only ones happy. Processors, who turn the seed into cottonseed cake for cattle feed, com plained that they were unable to compete with the Government's purchases and get the seed they needed. Result: there was a shortage, though possibly temporary, of cottonseed cake and the price jumped from $60 to $68 a ton in six weeks.* This naturally made beef cattle feeders...
Fighting the Fin Com...
...Mayor of Boston, Curley is forever at words points with the Boston Finance Commission. The Commission (or the Fin Com as it is most commonly called) is a five-man board appointed by the governor to keep a constant eye on the city's financial condition. Since the state government was Republican during most of Curley's administration, the Fin Com was generally very hostile to him; even during his first administration when the late Senator David I. Walsh, a democrat, was governor, the members of the Fin Com bitterly fought Curley's spending. But, for all their efforts...
...Hara's first post in Portland, Ore. it became clear that he liked to plow new ground in the Lordls vineyard. In 1913, when such causes were far from popular, he took the lead in pushing a minimum wage law through the Oregon legislature- one of the first com pulsory wage laws in the U.S. But perhaps his dearest concern of all, as both priest and bishop, is in developing his church in rural areas...
...shirts and rooters' caps. These caps are red on one side and white on the other. Certain designated people wear the red side of their hats up; everyone else wears white. The result of this folderol is a red S on a white background. Meanwhile the girls' section is com- Pletely equipped with pompoms. These are sticks with a lot of red and white confetti on the and, Whenever anything exciting happens, a mass of pom-poms waves madly in the air, and whenever the band plays, all the red and white confetti moves in time to the music...