Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, ancient Egypt's farm plan was drawn into the argument by the Joseph of 1956. On the griddle before the House Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stood stubbornly by his flexible price supports and his soil bank. Chiding Benson, North Carolina Democrat Harold Cooley said that the soil bank was, in fact, a Democratic idea used in the 1930s. Replied Mormon Apostle Benson: "Its sources probably go back to Joseph in Egypt...
...sciences, Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, Kenneth J. Conant, professor of Architecture, Harold D. Levine '29, clinical associate in Medicine, Eugene G. Richow, professor of Chemistry, and Carroll M. Williams, professor of Zoology, won awards...
...government concluded that it could not wait for remedies until the April budget. Pale and worried, Chancellor Harold Macmillan rose in Commons one day last week and announced his new measures. The day before, he had raised the bank rate (equivalent to the U.S.'s Federal Reserve discount rate, now at 2½%) to 5½% - highest since the depression days of 1932-in a move to tighten the supply of borrowable money. Now he jumped on the British consumer, who has been enthusiastically snatching up goods on the "never-never" (British slang for the installment plan). The minimum...
...Harold Dahl was an air-age soldier of fortune with a quiet, ingratiating manner, the face of an unappreciated minor poet-and an astonishing talent for oscillating rapidly between the frying pan and the fire, meanwhile eating well and never getting badly burned. He was also a good pilot-and a very lucky...
...broadcast a special appeal over TV for clues. Army and Navy helicopters flew over the area where Tom was last seen, and 100 M.I.T. fraternity men volunteered to join police in the search. But by the end of four days, only one lead had turned up. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sheehan of Waltham, Mass, reported that near 2 a.m. on initiation night, a boy answering Tom's description knocked at their door and asked to be driven "down the road to pick up my luggage." He said he was an M.I.T. student, but because of initiation rules, would...