Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government system of evening up farmers' incomes was simple compulsory saving in good years to put aside something for the lean. The Government had paid the farmer $1.35 a bushel for wheat. It sold to Britain under a special wheat deal (TIME, Aug. 5) at $1.55, and to other nations and the world markets for a variety of prices. The profit was dumped in a kitty along with profit from, selling wheat in Canada. In 1950 the kitty will be split up among farmers on a participating basis...
...take Collado's place the Bank picked a McCloy man, Eugene R. Black, 48, lean, laconic vice president of Manhattan's big Chase National Bank, who has recently returned from a two-month study of European credits. (His appointment is the only one that must be confirmed by the Senate...
...best hammock that the remote town of Rio Branco could provide, lean Alexander Daveron relaxed and invited his soul. What he would do next he had no idea. But of one thing he was certain-mules would have no part...
Economists, No. The ploughman has a better chance than the lean, tired man who says apologetically: "I think I could learn how to prune vines or do some kind of farm work. I haven't had the experience, of course, because I have always been a professor of economics...
...microscope is needed to see that the lean years are over. Crimson adherents can forget about wartime mediocrity and look forward to what may easily be one of the most golden seasons in Harvard track...