Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high, rigid props. In 26 commercial corn states 346,976 farmers voted 71.1% for a new program proposed by Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Result: next year corn growers will give up a system that paid 75% to 90% of parity if they planted no more than a Government-set limit, turn to a system that sets the props closer to real market value (i.e., 90% of the previous three-year average, but not below 65% of parity) for all the corn they can raise...
...rare that a good college team will keep the same stars for two consecutive seasons, with graduation providing an ever-present physical limit to a player's eligibility. This year's varsity swimmng team, however, will have ten returning lettermen and will lose no one who led last year's squad to a sixth place finish in the NCAA championships...
Under the act, the School of Education will ask for aid to support its counselor program, and the Office of Financial Aid expects to request the full quarter of a million dollar limit offered to institutions for the loan and fellowship progams...
...coal and are located too far from major industrial centers to be of much value. And the rosy agricultural future that Mao promises does not take into account the possibility of repeated bad harvests ("Weather no longer counts in China"), or the fact that there is presumably a finite limit to the amount of food a given area of ground can produce ("There are no low-yield crops, only low-yield thoughts...
Pride Restored. The new Pope had already given dramatic evidence of this intention by his appointment last week of 23 new cardinals, expanding the college from its 372-year-old limit of 70 to a new strength of 75-with the prospect of still further expansion to come. Most significant result of the new appointments will be to strengthen the administrative machinery of the church-the Curia-which Pius XII, no man to delegate wide authority, had neglected during the last few years. The Curia now has 24 instead of 13 cardinals, and the overall Italian representation in the College...