Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main and most controversial method for cutting production is flexible price supports. This Republican proposal would lower price supports, encouraging if not forcing farmers to reduce the supply and thus drive the price up again. Democrats maintain that under flexible supports, as profits go down, farmers try to earn more by producing more, not less. Recent statistics would seem to support the Republicans. Under flexible supports, the surplus was reduced from $8.9 billion to $8.1 from January to July of this year. In the third quarter of 1956, net farm income went up for the first time since...
Lubell's "impressionistic" technique of predicting how the U.S. will vote and why rests on interviews with only 3,500 to 4,000 families in each campaign. But he believes that his method is better than public-opinion polls. The pollsters try to get a census cross section in taking their samplings-a method that Lubell regards as rigid and superficial. Instead, Lubell goes on the theory that people vote according to group interests, sectional, economic, ethnic, religious. He charts and studies election returns in every U.S. county and most big-city precincts, as far back as the last...
...late as 1954, trading was largely limited to bonds; now stocks are starting to take over the market. Last year the German government passed a new tax law cutting corporate taxes by 25%, thus making dividend-paying stocks a more attractive method of corporate financing. In short order, 100 big German firms issued some $300 million worth of new stock issues, more than during the entire six-year period from 1949 to 1955, pushed dividend rates as high as 7.2% compared with only 2.9% in 1953. In the scramble to buy, West Germany's stock average of 17 industrial...
...naturally against Hitler, and spent three years in a concentration camp. The implication is that the average American girl could be considerably improved by the regular application of a rubber truncheon. Some may agree, but the heroine of this picture is not much of an advertisement for the method. Essentially, she is just one more gabby, opinionated woman, and whether from Pilsen or Pawtucket, she seems a bit of a bore...
...child is not just a little man. In the early years of the century, Surgeon William Ladd wrote a new chapter in the history of his dexterous profession by developing ways to revamp malformed intestinal and bile tracts in infants. Neurosurgeon Frank Ingraham has devised a highly ingenious method of draining the fluid in hydrocephalic children from the spinal canal to the kidneys through a polyethylene tube. Pediatrician Bronson Crothers has probed the causes of cerebral palsy, is now preparing a book with 1,000 exhaustive case histories...