Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swamped. Chief target of farmer anger was still Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who for seven years fought the scandalous farm subsidy program by urging Congress to reduce Government acreage controls and price props. Unhappy result: the U.S. farm program will cost a record $6.6 billion in fiscal 1960...
Benson succeeded in winning approval of his basic idea in the 1958 farm bill, which set subsidy rules for the 1959 corn crop. It abolished acreage controls, lowered price props toward the level set by the market (support price: $1.12 per bu.). But instead of cutting surplus production, as Benson...
But despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting...
Cynical Wisdom. Montana's gift, which he describes as coming "from the belly," consists of a throatily masculine baritone voice, an expressively mobile face and body and an air of casual virility that can curl the toes of every properly nourished female in the house. He works with few...
On one score the movie succeeds where the book failed: the suspense turns not on Whether the scapegoat will reveal himself but on how he will handle himself in each situation. And moviegoers have the best of Author du Maurier's bestseller props: intrigue, murder, romance, another haunted Manderley...