Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pastime for nearly 30 years, ever since the Great Depression began for the farmer-not in 1929, but in 1921. It was then that farmers began crying in earnest for "equality for agriculture" (parity), demanding that Government guarantee farm prices to keep the farmers' purchasing power on a par with the rest of the U.S. They argued, and correctly, that if farm markets were sick, then the U.S. was unhealthy at its core. They did not get parity written into law until after the New Deal moved in with its valise full of devices to repeal...
...accident last year (TIME, Feb. 14, 1949). After the first round of the National Open last week, Ben Hogan was trailing eight strokes behind an unknown, unemployed 26-year-old pro from Birmingham named Lee Mackey Jr., who had burned up the course with a record-breaking six-under-par...
...doggone arms wuz broke," moaned Sam. As the incoming scores went up on the huge scoreboards, other topflighters began to slip: Jimmy Demaret (149 for the first 36 holes), Al Brosch (151), Lawson Little (153). But iron-nerved Ben Hogan improved his first-round 72 with a one-under-par...
...since his accident had he played a full 36 holes in one day. With a grim smile, Ben went to work. The morning round left him two strokes back of Lloyd Mangrum's leading pace. In the afternoon, going into the final four holes, he needed par golf to win by two strokes. Tired and sagging, he could not quite make it. He missed an 18-inch putt on the dogleg 15th. On the 17th he lost another stroke by trapping his tee shot, settled for a three-way tie with Mangrum and Washington, D.C. Pro George Fazio...
...Hotel Statler built in 1943). But Douglas was counting on big convention trade, extra business from a big office building which will adjoin the hotel, and most of all on the nomadic U.S. people, whose travel has greatly increased. Said Douglas: "Our rates will be on a par with those of other leading Los Angeles hotels. And if we did not think we could make money on it, we wouldn't build...