Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvesters of the U.S.'s scandalous farm subsidy program, none have harvested more profitably than a bulky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), hearty Kansan named Ray Hugh Garvey. Wichita's Garvey, 66, is a businessman of wide and wealth-producing interests: he controls a 500-well oil company (with a 27½% depletion allowance on federal corporate income taxes), a loo-house-a-year building firm (most with FHA-insured mortgages), a fuel-distribution company selling to farmers (who often use gas unstintingly because of a 2½-per-gallon rebate on federal taxes). But it is from...
...successful is Ray Garvey at the taxpayer's expense that even he sometimes has his doubts. "We operate under the program," he said last week. "We don't set it." He need not worry: the U.S. Congress, touting the farm subsidy program as a boon to the small farmer, still seems more than willing to go on making multimillionaires out of the Ray Hugh Garveys...
...Since 1911, when it was won by Ray Harroun in the Marmon Wasp...
...famous as many of his subjects, grosses some $90,000 a year. The seven-room Manhattan apartment he shares with his witty wife, Sylvia, and their four sons is cluttered with the trappings of the great: Hitler's telephone, a coffee table dented by a Ray Bolger tap dance, a copy of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe inscribed, "To a REAL writer...
Aparajito (Indian). This sequel to Father Panchali by brilliant Director Satyajit Ray movingly describes an Indian family's sorrowful, hopeful encounter with modern times...