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Word: perishables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very evident that the Government farm-price supports have been adding to the riches of the farmers and their union at the heavy expense of the taxpayers of this country. Why should the farmers have such a subsidy when all other classes of business and professions survive or perish on their own expense and efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...explosive, eleven-part series reporting that funeral bells are in fact tolling for whole communities throughout predominantly agricultural Minnesota. Assigned to look into economic and social conditions in depressed farm towns, Rowan returned from a 90-day tour convinced that scores of communities will have to shift gears or perish. He found that a long-term drop in the state's net farm income (down $97 million since 1949) was aggravated by an agricultural revolution that is eliminating the country town's longtime function of marketplace and supply center. Yet, he reported, bigwigs in many rural communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rumpus over Rowan | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...tradition of British I-witness journalism, ran Correspondent Noel Barber's breathless dispatch: "I have reached the South Pole. I am the sixth Briton in history to do so, the first for 45 years since Scott's party of five reached here in 1912, only to perish on the return journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Pole | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...pictures of the horrible monstrosities we have created to defend ourselves from destruction and to destroy other people who likewise are preparing similar machines to defend themselves from destruction by us. In the frenzied direction we are now headed, to avoid sudden destruction we seem to be preparing to perish slowly, like Laika, in a bigger and better metallic cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Speaking on problems of international space law and on control of space last night, the Prince of Hanover stated that "we of the western world must, at all costs, succeed in maintaining our scientific supremacy so that our way of life will not perish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Must Keep Scientific Lead, Prince Maintains | 11/26/1957 | See Source »

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