Word: giffen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them with the shades all the way up, more than once," Mrs. L. Ruth Giffen, owner of the adjacent structure, told the CRIMSON yesterday. "My guests have seen it, too, and have complained to me about it." According to Mrs. Giffen such scenes have occurred two or three times in the past two weeks...
...grocery store, and much of his clothing, he paid twice-once in high prices over the counter, again in taxes to finance the farm-support program to keep the price up. From his taxes came the money for such subsidy payments as the $3,759,000 paid to Russell Giffen of Fresno, Calif, for his 1948 grain, cotton and flax; $426,000 to the Reeds of Fort Fairfield, Me., and $216,000 to Rudolph Blier of Van Buren, Me. for his 1948 potatoes...