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...level, needed in wartime to encourage food production in the face of shortages and inflation, was due to go out within two years after President Truman declared war's end in 1946. But farm-bloc Congressmen of both parties found that 90% was the sweetest manna in the political crib. Democrats conveniently forgot that in prewar 1938, Congress set the basic-crop price-support floor at only 52%; retrospectively, they sold 90% supports as a New Deal measure. Every two years, Congress extended the 90% supports, and farm surpluses piled up in Government storage houses. Example:the U.S. owns...
OPENED LAST NIGHT: At the Zlegfield, Charles Lederer's "Kismet", with music by Aleksandr Borodin and starring Alfred Drake, Joan Diener, Doretts Morrow, Henry Calvin, and Glenn Burris. For the benefit of theatre-goers deprived of critleal manna, the CRIMSON reprints a review of the musical as it appeared during the Boston try-out in late October. Our critic can not, of course, evaluate subscquent changes in the script or quality of the production...
...Titled Offering of the Jews, it showed solemn-faced men in bright robes about to sacrifice a lamb. The painter's name was unknown, but similarities in style clearly identified him as the painter of another work, now in the town of Douai, France, showing the Israelites receiving manna from heaven. Art experts call the unknown painter "the Master of the Collection of Manna," believe that he lived in northern Holland...
...recent years, Littauer has tried a second plan, a sort of manna from heaven idea of asking the Government to finance some Fellowships itself. Such a proposal has firm backing in precedent. Large corporations, trade unions, and the Army have found it profitable to ship promising men here, prepaid, for a year of advanced study. Government agencies, which admit the excellence of Littauer's training program, would like to give promising recruits year of educational leave with pay. If they did, these men could study at Littauer without taking a slice in income...
...Moldenkes give up guessing about some of the plants of the Bible. The "hyssop that groweth out of the wall" might be any one of many wall-growing plants. The manna that fed the Children of Israel has been variously explained as a gum that forms on desert trees, as algae that grow overnight on dew-covered ground, as a lichen that blows around the desert, even as migrating quail. The Moldenkes have confidence in none of these theories. They think that manna was a legendary product with no botanical origin. The Children of Israel had no theory about...