Word: howle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers themselves. A quota limits the amount of a commodity a farmer can market, if he wants to receive subsidy benefits. This method, in effect, gives the farmers monopoly powers. Under the Brannan plan, the quota system would be greatly expanded. This part of the plan has raised the howl of "government control" in Congress. The main argument against the quota system is that it is liable to be abused by the monopolistic groups. On the other hand, quotas give farmers protection that other producers get through tariffs, that industry gets through monopoly agreements, and that labor gets through unions...
...when his Martin 1305, the first clippers, were ready, the British were not. Trippe.called in his staff and said: "We'll fly the Pacific instead." When the balky British refused him entry into Hong Kong, Trippe sent his planes to nearby Macao. Hong Kong merchants raised such a howl that the British backed down and let Trippe...
...poured forth goods and foodstuffs like a great machine being pushed to its ultimate, agonizing peak of performance. Last week the nation heard the wheels slow down a few revolutions. Though they had cursed inflation to a man, U.S. citizens had grown so used to the howl of high-speed gears that any change in pitch sounded ominously like warnings of a slowdown...
...issue of discrimination raises an even louder howl, mostly from the South. The southern states operate a wasteful segregation system--one set of schools for whites, one for Negroes--which helps to make southern education the worst in the country. Assuming that federal aid will go where it is most needed, the South stands to receive the biggest share, and citizens in the north ask why they should pay taxes to support a wasteful and repugnant system of "dual education...
Most so-called serious novelists have an ax to grind, a true bill to find, a point of view that they want to uphold regardless of how many opposing points of view they may have to howl down or ignore in the process. James Gould Cozzens is like his fellows in this respect-with one admirable difference. The point he insists on making is that the world is far too wrapped up in different points of view for any one of them to be entirely true, that "the Nature of Things abhors a drawn line and loves a hodgepodge...