Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set price supports between 75% and 90% of the average market price in the preceding three years. As an alternative, if Congress could not bring itself to discard the parity idea, Ike suggested that Benson get authority to set support prices as low as 60% of parity...
...site, the U.S.S. Campbell reported that conditions were worse than anything the Coast Guard cutter had seen on convoy duty during World War II. There was one mammoth ice floe half a mile wide and 40 miles long. The boiling seas were choked with icebergs, growlers or low-riding chunks of glaciers, massive hummocks of pack ice, and brash or bits of broken pack ice. Nowhere in all that snow-swirling polar frenzy was there sight, sound or sign of the Hans Hedtoft and her freight of 95 human beings...
...flunkies by the Batista and previous regimes, whacking off 6,000 names at a saving of $15 million a year. The notoriously corrupt Havana newsmen, who for decades had been drawing up to $1,000,000 a month in government bribes, were rudely reduced to their salaries, some as low as $22.50 a week. Cold morality embraced Havana cops, part of them holdovers from Batista, the rest recruited from rebel ranks. The government warned that they would go to jail if they used their badges to cadge so much as a soft drink from a grocery clerk, let alone shake...
...trifle weary from her duties as the nation's No.1 hostess, Mamie Eisenhower will start her second two-week tour of arduous, low-caloric duty this month at Maine Chance, the high-priced ($400 to $600 a week) ladies-only rejuvenating ranch in Arizona run by Beautycoon Elizabeth Arden. Although her first session (TIME, March 3) was on the house, this time Mamie will...
...Eisenhower Administration has been anxious to represent itself as standing for political morality at home and liberal policies abroad. Its recent decision to reject the low bid of a British firm for turbines for an Arkansas dam has not helped to complete this image...