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Word: might (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this even more attractive, the concocters provided that federal wartime subsidies (paid to keep consumer prices below OPA ceilings) should also be tossed in the weighing pan, together with the cost of hired farm labor. This parity formula would give better prices to livestock and tobacco raisers. But it might not work for everything. So Congress thoughtfully provided that for the next four years, if the old formula provided a higher support price for any basic crop, that was what the farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Keep 'em Down on the Farm | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...time of great prosperity, it went beyond the President's deficit-spending policy in forcing the nation to live on borrowed money. The expected deficit for this year is $5 billion (Harry Truman had estimated it at $873 million). The deficit might yet prove to be the most dangerous bequest of the 81st Congress to a nation which was already $256 billion in debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...some of their failures as out of their accomplishments. Truman's inept fight for the repeal of Taft-Hartley and for civil-rights legislation had confirmed him, they argued, as the champion of labor and the Negro. What they meant was that labor and the Negro might have no grounds for gratitude to Harry Truman, but might still prefer him to his opponents. Crowed one Fair Dealer with satisfaction: "We haven't lost a Negro vote. We haven't lost a labor vote. We haven't lost a farmer vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...country politicians fully understood it, but no one would have any trouble recognizing its effects: might even face some increases at her butcher's, and on her milk bill.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Keep 'em Down on the Farm | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...state constitution, said the court, already requires an adequate oath. The loosely worded new law would deny New Jerseyites an essential constitutional right -"the right to select unworthy candidates, candidates who the legislature fears might bring ruin to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Right to Vote Wrong | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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