Word: fulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was one new condition: farmers would have to accept marketing quotas on their crops if they wanted full support. There were other new features: price support for "certain non-basic" commodities -wool, tung nuts, honey, Irish potatoes and dairy products, including whole milk -were made permanent at levels up to 90%. Furthermore, the Secretary was "authorized" to support any other commodity he wanted. Even perishable fruit & vegetables will get some of his bounty-the bill set aside approximately $100 million a year from custom revenues so that truck farmers could get in on the grab. ^ Farmers had long expressed...
...last week Father Divine, whose spiritual followers love to press their money on him, sent seven of his faithful flock from Philadelphia to Newark to buy the 300-room Riviera Hotel. It was a simple process. The seven loaded seven battered suitcases full of five, ten and twenty dollar bills, took them on the train, lugged their burdens seven blocks from the station to the Federal Trust Company. There they set their bags down and asked Federal's astonished bankers for a $550,000 treasurer's check...
...bones were indeed 400 years old, and that the ink, writing and signature on them appeared genuine. Leading archaeologists agreed. Crowds of tourists began to make the five-hour trip over rock-strewn roads from Taxco to the Ixcateopan church, where they goggled at a few shoe boxes full of bone fragments and the copper disc found under the altar bearing the inscription: "Señor y Rey, Coatemo...
...John Dewey is concerned, however, the world would have to decide the philosophical differences between him and Hutchins for itself. "Philosophy," he once wrote, "is of account only if ... it affords guidance to action." Today, his life is full of action, and it is hard for him to remember "that I am an old man." He remarried at 87 (his first wife died in 1927), and at 89 adopted two more children. In the past ten years he has published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says...
...admired "its vitality, its litter and its waste." Bad taste, Léger once remarked to Critic James Johnson Sweeney, "is also one of the valuable raw materials of the country. Bad taste, strong colors-it is all here for the painter to organize and get the full use of its power. Girls in sweaters with brilliant-colored skin; girls in shorts dressed more like acrobats in the circus than one would ever come across on a Paris street. If I had only seen girls dressed in good taste [in the U.S.] I would never have painted my cyclist series...