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Word: creditably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government price-support loans on its 1957 cotton crop, $20,761.20 in soil-bank subsidy (now partly abandoned) for not planting riceland. Example: Westlake Farms, Inc., of Stratford, Calif., did a heads-we-win-tails-you-lose business with taxpayer money: $854,450.67 from Commodity Credit Corp. for the cotton it raised, $125,942.50 from the soil bank for the cotton it did not raise. Because of a small 1957 crop and rising prices, some big operators redeemed their loans, but the soil-bank money was all gravy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Subsidized Size | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...most common topics of conversation on state visits to Washington-Communism and credit-will not have their usual urgency when Lemus comes to town. The planter-army oligarchy that runs El Salvador makes certain that no leftist ideologies nourish. Sound money policies and a balanced budget keep the currency stable at 2½ colons to the dollar. But Lemus will try to stir up investor interest, both governmental and private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: The Full Enchilada | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Compulsory Junior non-Honors tutorials will be abandoned, a policy followed by all other Departments, Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said yesterday. For non-Honors Seniors, tutorial groups without course credit will be organized in each House and at Radcliffe during the Spring, in preparation for General Examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Rel Dept. Alters Honors Requirement | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

Eating Crow. From the Laborites came shouts of "Ho! Ho!" and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell commented sarcastically, "The government deserve particular credit for eating so many words and even inviting Archbishop Makarios to the conference." Macmillan huffed back at Gaitskell: "He never has been and never will be able to rise to the level of great events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hotel Diplomacy | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Belafonte's associates credit him with an uncanny instinct for avoiding overexposure and repetition. He has been going light on the nightclub circuit in favor of more cross-country tours to college campuses and small-town auditoriums. He feels that direct contact with such audiences revitalizes his performances. As a shrewd showman, he refuses to appear regularly on television because he dislikes both the overexposure of TV and the fact that it can rarely offer him the time to develop a finished show. He also refuses to plug his own hits indiscriminately. Having kicked off the calypso boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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