Word: levell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert O'Hearn's efficient and fascinating two-level stage tops the Company's previous triumphs in design, and it is hard to subordinate Richard Baldridge's beautiful staging to the play itself...
...cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline stampede that ended with us being grossly insulted by a sturdy farmer fortunately isolated by 20 yards of muddy water...
Warshaw points to the American "cultural presentation" as an example. Most of the youth delegations turned out programs ranging from tumbling to ballet; these various exhibitions ran every night. Some were on what Warshaw calls a "professional level," the Soviet delegation putting on a show complete with soloists from Moscow's Bolshoi theater. The Mongolian Republic brought dances, acrobatics, and a collection of stringed instruments...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...
Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...