Word: counterplanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...
...Arabs proposed a counterplan which represented a high-water mark in their willingness to compromise: a "democratic" Palestine in which the Jews would have "constitutional guarantees against discrimination and guarantees safeguarding their cultural and language rights," representation in the government proportional to their population. Said Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, Secretary-General of the Arab League: "I am looking forward to the day when there will be a Jewish representative for Palestine in the Arab League...