Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, following Mr. Sam to the hilltop, last week passed a bill that 1) ends acreage controls on corn, provides a price-support floor of 65% of parity, subject to a farmers' referendum; 2) allows cotton farmers either 80% of parity with low-controlled acreage, or 65% with higher acreage, with a floor for all of about 27? a pound by 1962; 3) gradually cuts supports on rice to 65%. The Senate Agriculture Committee accepted the House bill, paved the way for quick passage before adjournment. Result: a crowning triumph for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
...fallout. They found least long-range danger from that which swirls through the troposphere (the part of the atmosphere that goes seven to eleven miles up) for several months before falling. At most, its short-lived isotopes raise annual external marrow and gonad dosage by .0005 rem. But the higher stratosphere (beyond eleven miles) is a reservoir of long-lived isotopes that fall for many years. Chief dangers...
...Youth Group Bureaucrat Yevgeni Bugrov, 35, the delegation's deputy chairman, reported that "a whole series of aspects of U.S. higher education did not make a favorable impression on our Soviet students. Payment for the privilege of studying seemed a very peculiar phenomenon to us." Tuition costs "of $150 to $450 a semester" make higher education hard to obtain for "children of workers and peasants...
...Look at the Teeth. Oreopithecus lived in Miocene-period marshes, which are now coal areas around Grosseto, in central Italy. His first fossil bones were found in 1872, have always been labeled monkey fragments. But in 1949 Hurzeler became convinced that Oreopithecus was a higher type. For years he pored over bits of jaws and teeth at Basel Natural History Museum, where he is curator of vertebrate paleontology...
...report called for "immediate action" to adjust fares, restore higher earnings and investor confidence. It thus presented a White House mandate to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which has been dawdling over a general passenger-fare investigation since the spring of 1956, is not scheduled to complete it until next March. "By that time," noted Quesada in a covering letter to the President, "the success or failure of major segments of the equipment program may well have been determined. The CAB must examine the carriers' proposals promptly...