Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clanging Plowshare. Republican Kline had made no secret of his opposition to Brannan's plan, with its proposal for high prices on the farm, low prices in the grocery store, and Government subsidies to pay the difference. Kline favored instead a "sliding scale" parity program with a minimum of federal controls, based at an even lower level than the present compromise farm bill. But how did the rank & file of the prosperous, conservative Farm Bureau feel about it? Thousands of its members owed much of their current well-being to measures of the Truman Administration; thousands had voted...
...Raffles. By offering adequate salaries, a decided innovation in Mexican education, Garza put together a top-grade faculty. From the beginning, entrance requirements were high and student charges low (a top of $20 a month for tuition, $60 for room and board), with plenty of scholarships available to qualified applicants from anywhere in Mexico...
...program which extends into every corner of human misery and misfortune. The Salvation Army also runs a chain of 115 cheap-rate hotels and lodgings. It operates special emergency havens for runaway girls and alcoholic women, nurseries, summer camps, boys' clubs, a chain of Evangeline Residences for low-income working girls. Its immigration bureau gives advice in deportation cases, straightens out legal tangles. It runs a missing persons bureau, visits prisons and takes on the responsibility of many parolees. It runs ten hospitals, 34 homes for unwed mothers...
...which is a good deal better than its coy title. He sees TV as more closely related to the theater than to movies-"No film is as good as what we can do live on television." He is also confident that it will never descend to the low mental level of radio, because it can deal with adult problems, "and we don't get chichi or phony about them." In TV, he has tackled such subjects as adultery and Lesbianism, both frowned upon in radio and movies, without causing any scandalized uproar. "We deflect tension," Miner explains...
Although stock in many stores is running low, the CRIMSON is keeping its subscription lists open as a public service to those who want to give their parents or anybody else the perfect Christmas present...