Word: level
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cotton, peanuts-the bill extended the present 90% parity support through another year. This would fall to 80% in 1951, to 75% the following year. But in either year the Secretary of Agriculture could set support prices above these figures at his own discretion, up to the magic 90% level. Tobacco, the sixth basic commodity, got support at 90% in perpetuity, or as long as the law is unchanged...
...projects. They had signed up to modernize Raglands department store on Texas' famed King Ranch (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947); they had just completed the first part of a face-lifting for Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers (cried Gimbels in full-page ads: "We are speechless"). Their new two-level Greyhound bus (the Scenicruiser) was being road-tested on Michigan roads. For California they were planning a state fair...
...weeks in Europe, studying methods of increasing European exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion to date) will be thrown away...
...committee will be organized in each House to carry out these extra-classroom educational activities, and the Council committee will supervise with an eye to keeping all on the level of a great "scientific experiment...
...Council committee's plan paralled that of a faculty committee now existing under Dean Bender which is considering the return of education to the House level. The Council committee apparently feels the same as the faculty, that opportunities for the student in the large University to have personal contact with other students and with his teachers have been greatly reduced by cuts in tutorial and crowded conditions...