Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the A.F.B.F. called for a "special effort" by the Government to get whole farms into a long-term conservation reserve. Benson's new approach also made sense, as a step in the right direction, to the respected Committee for Economic Development, a private organization of high-level businessmen and educators. In a thoughtful farm-policy study released last week, C.E.D. argued that it would be cheaper for the Government to rent farm land than to buy and store surplus crops, because the crop price not only covers land rental but also the costs of labor, equipment, fertilizer...
...calls for appointment of a top-level scientific adviser to NATO and establishment of a committee for pooling scientific information...
Argued Busia in level tones: "What the original British bill says is this: 'We shall seek suspension of laws to ride roughshod over fundamental rights only if the entire nation is imperiled by war.' What the Ghana government is now saying is, 'No, no, we want you to give us powers to exercise absolute authority, even if only a local area is affected...
Polar scientists have long speculated on what lies beneath the ice-covered surface of the South Pole, which is 9,200 ft. above sea level. Last week the best look yet beneath the Pole came from the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J., seismologist, burly professor of geophysics at Boston College and onetime (1923) guard on a good B.C. football team. Jesuit Linehan's findings: the Pole is underlain by rock above sea level...
...from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt is covered by a surface layer of snow and ice 77 ft. thick. After studying his charts, Linehan said: "We probably can assume that the same type...