Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, Mass...
...Brannan reported that the Government's wartime potato price-support program, kept alive by the 80th Congress, already had cost $200 million for the 1948 crop and would cost more before the year's output is disposed of. What's more, the Government's mass buying of 1948 potatoes (now at a husky $2.90 to $3.50 per bushel) was keeping prices up in the grocery store, so taxpayers were getting socked twice for every potato they bought...
Meanwhile, in Cambridge, Mass., home of the annual titanic, reports from Still-man Infirmary indicated that all was not well in the Lampoon camp. Apparently suffering from an overdoes of a mysterious oriental drug, the Poonsters were lying on beds of pair tonight. "We were tricked,' groaned Oliveyl Q"isling, relief hurler. "I suspect Deceitful Cockatoo of feeding the team some poisoned rhubarbs at the game...
Laski called for a union of workers "by hand by brain" to form a lasting third party. He foresaw no powerful political group except a party formed on the mass basis provided by Trade Unionism. But, he emphasized, these trade unions must gather about them those sharing their ideals...
Dean Wild will speak at a mass meeting of all grad students under the sponsorship of the Graduate Advisory Council. The topic of his talk is the results of a questionnaire which all graduate school students were required to fill out at registration last fall...