Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncertainty Removed. The big threat to the Treasury lies in the fact that Benson's scheme removes all uncertainty about what a farmer can get for his corn, no matter how big the crop. The price: $1.12 to $1.15 per bu., about 12? lower than high supports would have been, but 6? to 9? per bu. higher than the present price peg for noncompliance corn. At Benson's price, efficient growers can make good money on all the well-fertilized hybrids that their big tractors can cultivate...
...three-judge federal panel upheld the Alabama law on the ground that none of the 17 qualifications were, in and of themselves, unconstitutional unless proved, by evidence submitted to the courts, to be administered so as to exclude Negroes from white schools. "In some future proceeding," warned the lower court, "[the law] may be declared unconstitutional in its applications." That, in sum, was the judgment that the Supreme Court sustained last week...
...Middle. The people that López Mateos pledged himself to serve range from Mexico's idle rich to Mexico's idle poor. The lower class-still more than two-thirds of Mexico's population of nearly 33 million-is made up of slimly nourished Indians, peons and drifters who barely manage to stay alive on beans and tortillas, who wear huaraches or go barefoot, who live in Mexico's 2,000,000 adobe hovels, who never spend more than a few pesos from the time they are born until they die. The upper class, socially...
...Hires a member of the lower class as a servant...
...urge among swarming lower-class families to put at least one member on the bottom rung of the new middle class stirs all across Mexico. In Portales, a section of Mexico City, one such family lives over the garage behind a big house. The father is caretaker for his landlord. The Indian mother and all the family-except one-spend their days squatting on a curbstone around an open charcoal brazier, making and selling tacos (tortillas rolled around fillings of beans, meat or chicken). The exception is a teen-age daughter, who wears nylons and goes to a commercial school...