Word: longs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer to a Desire. After Harry Truman's re-election and the triumphant upsurge in Washington of the Fair Deal, Keyserling began to move in. Almost any time Nourse opened his mouth in public, Keyserling, from his adjoining office, wrote him a long-winded and challenging letter, keeping carbons for the record. Patiently Nourse replied by letter-also for the record. Increasingly Nourse dissented from Harry Truman's economic views; consistently Keyserling agreed with them, supported them. Finally Nourse wrote his resignation, remarking to a friend after the President's 1949 Economic Report to Congress...
...Furthermore, the Secretary was "authorized" to support any other commodity he wanted. Even perishable fruit & vegetables will get some of his bounty-the bill set aside approximately $100 million a year from custom revenues so that truck farmers could get in on the grab. ^ Farmers had long expressed dissatisfaction with the old parity 1909-14 base period. The bill provided a new parity formula, based on a time of even greater farm prosperity-the past ten years. To make this even more attractive, the concocters provided that federal wartime subsidies (paid to keep consumer prices below OPA ceilings) should also...
...would fall to 80% in 1951, to 75% the following year. But in either year the Secretary of Agriculture could set support prices above these figures at his own discretion, up to the magic 90% level. Tobacco, the sixth basic commodity, got support at 90% in perpetuity, or as long as the law is unchanged...
...bill was loudly hailed as a compromise victory for the proponents of flexible supports over those of rigid 90% support. In a way, it was−as long as the supports stayed flexible. If it was any consolation to the consumer, the bill that almost got through was worse...
...stepped out of it long enough to butter up his old enemy, the A.F.L.'s President William Green as "the able Mr. Green," and to propose that Green and Lewis chip in $2,500,000 a week for the striking steelworkers (Green's A.F.L. was to put up nine-tenths of the money). Last week after he had gotten his answer (a curt no thanks), the mineworkers' president got off another letter to Bill Green...