Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmers: "The Brannan plan is a fraud on its face because it seeks to guarantee high prices to the farmer as well as the price the consumer would be willing to pay, with the difference being met by the taxpayer. It is a fraud because the farmer and the consumer are the taxpayers...
...bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube's expressive face and thin, agile limbs have helped launch slogans like "You'll get the lump from Tate, but State will give you the hump." A "Memo from Mr. Cube," hitting state controls, went to 5,000,000 voters...
...ruinous practice: he raises two wheat crops in succession, and turns the produce into a quick cash profit. Then he returns the land to his sheep. Berlingieri's tenants can do no better; generation after generation they have worked their fields only on three-year leases, had to face expulsion from the land at the end of each three-year term at the owner's will. They never dared to invest years of labor improving a soil whose yield might not be theirs...
...tuning up and chatter stopped in mid-note as the grey-haired man in the tan sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and handsome, melancholy face warm with affection. When his glance had embraced them all, Charles Munch picked up his baton, smiled and said: "Maintenant, relax." A moment later, Boston's 50-year-old Symphony Hall was rocking joyously with the rehearsal of Hector Berlioz' bounding overture, The Corsair...
After losing a disappointingly close game to Navy last Saturday, the varsity quintet goes back to the Garden tonight to face a fast BC squad. The varsity got off slowly against the Midshipmen, and a 39 point second half was not enough to put away the game...