Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jammed into the Nameless Food Market for milk at 10? a quart; a store on Portland's east side sold milk for 15? a quart; grocery chains and supermarkets chopped their prices 2? a quart all along the line. The cause of the big drop was an overwhelming revolt of Oregon voters against the state's 21-year-old Milk Control Law, which set strict production and distribution quotas, minimum wholesale and retail prices. The man responsible: a modest farmer named Elmer Deetz, who runs a 12-cow dairy farm near Canby...
ROSCOE DRUMMOND, the Republican New York Herald Tribune's chief Washington correspondent: The real "secret weapon" of the Republican campaign and the Republican winner of 1954 is Ezra Taft Benson, the flexible-price-support Secretary of Agriculture. The "farm revolt" just didn't develop. And Secretary Benson has shown himself to be, not the bogeyman, but the strong man of the Republican campaign, second only to the President himself...
...French say they will not negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...
Minister & Mail Carrier. The revolt against the Hedermans was led by Mississippi-born Dumas Milner, 37, one of the leading businessmen in Jackson and biggest Chevrolet dealer in the South. Milner, who is estimated to be worth more than $2,500,000 himself, began to think about starting the new paper when the Hedermans made their first open move to buy the News. Milner got twelve other businessmen to put up the first $300,000, and then "it was one of those things that snowballed, with people just calling in and asking to buy stock without even being asked." Investors...
...three-way presidential race that looked like a three-way standoff. But Ramon Villeda Morales, a socially prominent pediatrician and a pro-U.S. liberal, got 48% of the vote. Because he missed an absolute majority, a newly elected Congress must choose the next President, but the talk of revolt dwindled rapidly in the face of such a clear verdict. Hondurans, whose history lists 134 revolutions in 130 years, pinched themselves and wondered if democracy had perhaps arrived at last...