Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially unhappy with the "unfortunate" requirement that about 5,000,000 bales of Government-held surplus cotton (for which the U.S. originally paid upwards of 32^ a Ib.) be dumped on the world market for, at most, 25^ or 26^ a Ib. This provision forces the U.S. to "follow an inflexible program of cotton export sales with little regard to costs and without adequate regard to the far-reaching economic consequences at home and abroad." It must be administered, said he dryly, "with extreme caution...
...Browning School, handsome Arthur MacArthur, 18, got a firm military handshake from his rifle-spined father, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, a doting smile from mother, Jean Faircloth MacArthur. Latest in line of the soldiering family that has led U.S. troops in five wars, Arthur will not follow paternal footprints to West Point. He will take up studies at Columbia University this fall, will probably join an R.O.T.C. unit...
...wage increases, said Macmillan, "will not bring benefit to anyone. It would only bring benefit to men in a particular industry if they were the only ones to get it. But they will not be. If one starts, others will follow. No one will gain anything except more and more paper money, which will buy less and less...
...ending with two phony uppercuts and a headlock. Waiting for Joe in his dressing room were two feds. They presented papers to take away Joe's $400 purse for deduction from his strangling $1,210,789 income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Mumbled Louis: "This kinda thing gonna follow me all around?" Then he stuffed the notice of levy in his suitcase and slowly began to put on his pants. A dime dropped to the floor. The local promoter retrieved it and handed it to Joe. Unsmiling, the Brown ex-Bomber gazed vacantly at the coin. "You payin...
...much for Governor Smith. In the middle of the night he gave Attorney General Thornton sweeping powers to oust Langley immediately from control of the grand jury; the attorney general took it over next morning. At week's end, as the Oregonian and the Journal strained to follow the crooked trail uncovered by Reporters Turner and Lambert, they could agree at least that something was rotten in Portland...