Word: livestock
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Died. Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, 90, longtime (1911-53) Democratic Congressman from North Carolina, chairman under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee; in Laurel Springs. N.C. A self-made rich man (livestock, banking), shrewd, backwoodsy "Farmer Bob" took over the tax-initiating Ways and Means Committee in 1933, and for two decades (except for the Republican controlled 80th Congress) bossed it through the vast revenue-raising needed for depression and war. Determinedly cracker-barrel (Taxation is a matter of "getting the most feathers with the least squawks from the goose"), Tax-Planner Doughton tried...
...Senate has the added power, however of administering the student tax, a tax of approximately $40 a year which finances such items as the University's semi-weekly newspaper and its cattle judging team, a team of agriculture students that competes with groups from other colleges in judging livestock. Since the tax is administered by the popularly-elected Senate, however, it meets practically no opposition from among the students...
...Five Southern states (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina) are designated drought disaster areas. Farmers in those states will get increased subsidies for purchase of Government-owned feed for livestock...
...Prescott is the first to weigh the growth of individual amoebas, but he is not tending his microscopic livestock as a mere stunt. He has already discovered something new: that amoebas generally grow for about 20 hours. Then for the next four hours before they divide, their weight does not increase. This scrap of information, gathered so laboriously, is considered important in the study of cellular growth, including the growth of cancer cells in the human body...
...wheat country's Langer illustrated a fact that members of Congress well know: the price-support argument is not a "farm bloc" issue. Farm-state Senators and Representatives are split, with those from grain, dairy and cotton areas generally plumping for high, rigid supports and those from livestock and diversified sections favoring flexibility. In view of the split, the Eisenhower Administration this week was fighting for the votes of Northern, big-city Democrats, who will hold the balance of power when the roll calls come. Vice President Nixon, Secretary Benson and his Under Secretary, True D. Morse, were ready...