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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEAT SUPPORTS will drop to their lowest level since the war, whether or not farmers approve strict marketing quotas for 1956. If farmers approve the quotas, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will peg prices at an average 76% of parity, v. 82½% this year. If farmers kick over the quotas, the support price will automatically drop to 50%. Benson's reasoning on the 76% figure: with forecasts for the smallest wheat crop (845 million bu.) in twelve years, 1956 will be a good year to cut down the mountain of surplus farm products that the U.S. must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...each signpost of normality, and once he is in school, his teachers want him above all to integrate, to be as well-rounded and easy-to-handle as an apple. As he grows older, the boy can be measured scientifically so he will continue to be a round peg in a round hole. For example, a test will undertake to show not only how good a scientist he might become, but also how likely he is to betray his country. If he wants to be a journalist, he can read a book on writing for "people who are just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wanted: Dream Man | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...that a photograph of Mabel Normand as "Peg O' My Heart" instead of Laurette Taylor [May 9] ? ... I am of the fallible opinion that a long time ago (30 years maybe) I saw Mabel Normand in the movie version of Peg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Neither Cinemactress Normand nor Daniels (see cuts) played in the movie version of Peg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...actress was that she used herself up on plays written by her husbands. When she married the popular but lightweight British Playwright J. Hartley Manners, it was both a real love match and a tacit contract to become his star for life. Together they became rich and famous (Peg 0' My Heart, One Night in Rome), but it was plain that a great talent was being spent on thin theater. Laurette did not seem much to care. Peg 0' My Heart had made her a favorite of New York and London; the movie made her a household heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deeper than Greasepaint | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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