Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to modernize the basis for minimum support prices, the Brannan plan includes a new and highly-complicated formula. The present support price is a flat 90 percent of parity, parity taken as the 1909-1914 period. A new plan, scheduled to go into effect in 1950, will allow prices to vary between 60 and 90 percent of parity. The Brannan plan, however, will base support prices for each year on the average of the ten previous years...
...respond to any major agricultural trend until five years have passed. The last ten years have been amazingly plush for agriculture, and market prices are likely to drop considerably in the future. Since the Brannan plan shifts the financial burden from the consumer to the Treasury, the immediate effect of the plan would be a large drain on the public funds. But any subsidy plan essentially involves a redistribution of income, and this becomes a question of how much income will shift from the tax-payer to the farmer...
...those weeks when the U.S. citizen re-experienced the urge that had assailed him annually since the day of the Apperson Eight and the Pope-Toledo. He wanted to go somewhere in an automobile. He wanted to breathe exhaust fumes and fresh spring air just for the tonic effect. He wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck...
Thin Victory. In the 1940 election, Muñoz' Populares squeezed out a thin victory. He became Senate president and, in effect, the real ruler of Puerto Rico...
...goodbye to Boston Friday and Saturday with a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony which will long be remembered by those privileged to attend. It was not by any means a definitive performance, however. There were the usual alterations, sacrificing the composer's intentions for Koussevitzky's idea of effect, and the physical limitations of Symphony Hall's stage forced the conductor to use a smaller chorus than is ordinarily employed. But Dr. Koussevitzky's interpretation of Beethoven's masterpiece was one which for sheer beauty and noble concept will seldom be approached...