Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed by the Senate, the measure guaranteed wheat farmers who agree to limit their acreage a support price of $2 per bu. for wheat sold for domestic human consumption, and $1.55 per bu. for export wheat. Textile mills would receive a subsidy of about 60 to allow them to buy U.S. grown cotton at the world price of 240 per lb. Cotton growers, while receiving a 300-per-lb. support price, would be paid a bonus for reducing plantings...
...Smoke & Beef. With the exception of a successful amendment by Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, to limit the program to two years, all attempts at weakening the bill were defeated. Delaware Republican John J. Williams introduced an amend ment that could end subsidies on to bacco, which for 30 years has received supports as one of the U.S.'s six "basic" agricultural commodities. Nonsmoker Williams wondered "whether the tax payers should subsidize the production of this commodity, which the Surgeon General and other responsible physicians have said is harmful...
Sophomore Tony Lynch will team with Awori in the hurdles, where an exceptionally strong field could easily limit the Crimson to a skimpy point...
...President is at liberty both in law and conscience to be as big a man as he can," Woodrow Wilson said in a lecture at Columbia in 1906. "His capacity will set the limit." Few today would agree. In a world complicated by foreign committments, enlarged bureaucracy, and increased technology, it is almost a truism that a clutch of factors restrain the President...
Various stalling techniques were used by the Rockefeller forces: During the first ballot, delegates frequently asked that an entire state delegation be polled in lieu of accepting the state chairman's tabulation. And as the 5 p.m. limit approached, many pro-Rockefeller delegates made last minute changes in their votes, to consume time...