Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many times I have denied expressing pleasure at lower farm prices. But this is an election year, and it is not surprising that political opponents and anti-farm-program people would do their best to keep the error alive. The "pleasure" legend sprang from a March 31 conference when I said: "I am pleased to report that farm prices in certain key items have moderated cyclical highs which have accounted for most of the consumer food increase." Of 50 newsmen, only a reporter for the New York Times interpreted this to mean that I was "pleased with a decrease...
...many years-even while I was Governor of Minnesota-I maintained that fair and stable prices, rather than boom-and-bust prices, were essential to the best interests of both farmer and consumer. Never have I said that I favored lower farm prices. On the contrary, I have spent a good share of my life fighting for better prices and higher income for the farmer. ORVILLE L. FREEMAN Secretary...
...automatic sprinkler system opened up, spraying curtains of water into the lower-deck compartments. But the magnesium-fed fire continued to burn, turning sections of the flight deck above into a sizzling skillet. Choking clouds of dense, dirty-grey smoke poured through seven decks of the Oriskany's forward sections. Two more blasts sent flames belching along the flight deck, where red-shirted ordnance experts worked feverishly to jettison 500-lb., 1,000-lb.and 2,000-lb. bombs they dumped dozens overboard into...
...Crimson crew, which has not placed lower than third this year, will join 13 other colleges for the Schell Regatta at M.I.T. this weekend. Two weeks ago, Harvard beat out Tufts and the Coast Guard to win the Tufts Invitational, with B-Division skipper Parker Jayne leading the regatta in scoring...
Kresge knew well how to pinch pennies-or at least nickels and dimes. He bought his clothes off the ready-to-wear racks, traveled in a Pullman upper berth because the fare was lower than for the lower. He allowed himself the luxury of a 10? shoeshine, but stopped after his shoeshine boy raised the price to 15?. Colleagues once persuaded him to take up golf as a hobby, along with beekeeping he had enjoyed since boyhood, but he soon gave up the game because he lost too many golf balls. Invited to speak at the 1953 dedication of Harvard...