Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Start now to free the farmer of Government controls on acreage by letting the Secretary of Agriculture gradually increase acreage allotments up to 50% above present levels if-as Benson hopes-lower farm prices stimulate consumption at home and abroad in areas where U.S. products have been priced out of the market...
...LOWER FARM PRICE supports and higher acreage allotments will be asked of Congress by Secretary Benson. He wants authority to boost acreage for basic crops by as much as 50%, and to set price supports between 65% and 90% of parity (current range...
...tutor, who preferred to remain anonymous, said, "I would prefer to read typed exams." He lamented that under the present system, 10 to 15 per cent of the exams he must grade are illegibly written, and consequently suffer lower grades...
None of the explanations satisfied the critics, some of whom were sure that Callas was simply losing her voice. Said the Paese Sera: "Let's be truthful. She started badly and got worse. Her voice appears threatened by changes in timbre and variations in the lower registers. In the high registers Callas is an acrobat who lacks breath...
...bars. Older brother Frank, acting head of the family, is a canny millionaire-in-the-making and a guilt-ridden lecher who loses successive mistresses to his wife's beagle-eyed sleuthing. Dave cannot stand the pompous Philistinism of Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table...