Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of election-year congressional wrangling (TIME, April 16 et seq.), the bank had got off to a late start. Most winter wheat was waving in the breezes, and most corn farmers saw more chance for profit in raising crops for the guaranteed support prices of $1.50 a bushel under acreage control or $1.25 for over allotment corn. Then came the drought. Fiery winds seared crops in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Farmers looked at their parched and wilted fields, hied themselves off to the soil bank, signed on the dotted line and went back home to plow their stunted crops...
Thus did the court-martial of Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, U.S.M.C., charged with drinking on duty, "oppression" of troops and culpable negligence in the death of six recruits drowned while on a night disciplinary march under his command (TIME, April 23 et seq.), come to an end one afternoon last week at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island...
Although the hunting horn has long since disappeared from the symphony orchestra (where the French horn does the horn calls, e.g., Wagner, Bach and Beethoven), its music is still kept alive by dedicated amateur groups such as the Parisian Le Cercle Dampierre et Bien Allé,* which turned up at Laarne last week. For the 200-odd such groups scattered throughout Europe, three French manufacturers produce some 400 hunting horns a year at about $35 apiece...
...heroes persuaded few in the ranks. Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney mockingly pointed out that in the 1952 Korean war crisis Taber, Martin, et al. had voted to cut military assistance, and complained, "I don't understand this switching around." Replied New York Republican Ken Keating: "There is one important difference between 1952 and now. We had a different group of advisers advising us then...
...first the signs were strong for Oilman Kerr, but because he had fought too hard for the natural-gas bill, roundly vetoed by the President (TIME, Jan. 30. et seq.), it was decided that Kerr was not the man for this year. Nor could the committee quite agree that the quick-tongued Humphrey should have center stage so early in the convention; he was too outspoken on civil rights, too vociferously in favor of Adlai Stevenson...