Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Social Error. His campaign tactics were unorthodox but effective. On occasion, Lausche traveled around Ohio by bus. Whenever he had an engagement at a strawberry festival or a county fair, he usually managed to slip in through a side entrance, avoid the official greeters and mingle with the crowds, shaking all hands, admiring babies, and earnestly talking politics to individual voters. His common touch made excellent word-of-mouth publicity and swung many a vote. In 1946, when Lausche ran for reelection, he was defeated by 40,000 votes. At least part of his defeat was attributed to the fact...
...conditions in New England this weekend will range from fair to excellent. Vermont reports good to excellent skiing on most of its slopes, while conditions in New Hampshire are rated as fairly good...
Manchester Snow Valley is excellent; Middlebury and Stowe's Mansfield and Spruce Peak are judged good to excellent; and Manchester's Big Bromley is good. At Franconia, Mittersill is excellent and the slope of Cannon Mountain is good to excellent. North Conway's Cranmore reports fair to good conditions...
...going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total costs of processing and merchandising pork have gone up, as they have in other farm commodities. I believe firmly you're entitled to a fair return. But when one segment of the meat team is suffering, it cannot be too long before other segments also will suffer . . . I urge you in the industry to tighten up your costs. Keep your profits and margins in line . . . This is no time to take advantage of the American...
...Originally called "Moritat" (literally, a murderous deed), a song style used by 17th and 18th century street-fair singers, who tearfully presented the latest atrocity in ballad form on the streets of Germany...