Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years only a small proportion (12% in 1958) of corn farms qualified for high supports by staying inside the Government's acreage limits. Farmers who planted more fed it to livestock, sold it on the open market-or sold it to the Government under a slightly lower price prop, which Benson obligingly extended to such "noncompliance" corn three crops ago. After 1956 the extra price prop was never guaranteed before the crop was planted, but the farmers' expectations encouraged surplus production. Last week, before the vote, word went around the corn belt that Benson would not support noncompliance...
...Dwight Eisenhower wound up three weeks and 6,860 miles of campaigning by plane and train last week, one sobering prospect appeared to lie uppermost in his mind. For other Republicans there would be more prop-stops and politicking in the years to come. But for him, 1958 marked the last campaign in which his own position was at stake, in which his own concerns could be affected. Propelled by that thought, the President dwelled often and with great earnestness on his remaining two years in the White House, on the legacy of achievement he hoped that those two years...
Playwright Teichmann's own screwball inventions do not pay off anywhere near so well. The Girls in 509 has truly funny moments, when a gag cuts sharp as a razor, or a prop turns into a vise. But a situation that never develops the slightest bit of story has to be relentlessly kept going with comic-strip characters and hit-or-miss gags. Worse, loud and obvious staging that only Peggy Wood knows how to rise above underlines everything that is tiresome, or tinny, or both. Actually, The Girls in 509 has just enough winning gags and gadgets...
...Still up in the air are flights to Rome. Though Rome last week gave technical clearance to the 707s to operate from Ciampino Airport, the Italian government has so far refused "political" clearance, may force Pan Am to fly its jet passengers from Paris to Rome in prop planes until the clearance comes through...
Dick Nixon flew out of Washington on his first prop-stop tour of the 1958 campaign last week, and before his chartered flying-command post had made three landings, Republicans across the land had a feeling they were back in business again...