Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate began. ex-Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson rolled out a bill based on the Democratic Party platform-a sliding scale of generous supports, ranging from 90% of parity down to 75%, depending on the size of U.S. harvests. But North Dakota's Republican Young and Georgia's Democrat Dick Russell were out to do better by the farmers. They proposed an amendment that would keep price supports on basic crops fixed at the flat 90% of parity which had been set up to increase production in time of war, and which the House had already voted...
...Georgia Tech 85, Auburn...
...procession's end, Nehru stepped from his barge to an automobile and sped off to a guest house. Along the way he was serenaded by a volunteer band which seemed to know only one tune-Marching Through Georgia...
...hours before the Senate was to learn that McMahon's prophecy was cold, disturbing fact, the fate of the arms plan was still far from certain. Sober, economy-minded Walter George of Georgia, trying to cut the $1 billion appropriation for the Atlantic pact nations by $500 million, argued doggedly that the U.S. could not run the risk of bleeding itself white for Europe. "To the extent that we weaken America," he declared, "to the extent that we weaken the strength of our arm, we undoubtedly cut the life out of the whole North Atlantic community...
...Negroes were killed after race rioting in Columbia's Mink Slide district (TIME, March 11, 1946). Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill was shot to death by Georgia lynchers (TIME, June...