Word: rice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rice & Rubies. Prewar Burma was the world's largest exporter of rice, teak, rubies and jade. Its oil wells supplied its own needs and most of India's. The Mawgmi mine was the world's chief single source of tungsten...
...five basic commodities-wheat, corn, rice, cotton, peanuts-the bill extended the present 90% parity support through another year. This would fall to 80% in 1951, to 75% the following year. But in either year the Secretary of Agriculture could set support prices above these figures at his own discretion, up to the magic 90% level. Tobacco, the sixth basic commodity, got support at 90% in perpetuity, or as long as the law is unchanged...
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union raised an outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board...
...Kentuckey 0 14 0 0-14 Cinciunat 0 0 0 7-7 St. Louis 0 0 0 14-14 Duquesne 21 18 12 0-51 SOUTHWEST Texas 0 0 6 0-6 S.M.U. 0 0 0 7-7 Texas Tech 0,Tab>0 0 0-0 Rice 7 14 0 7-28 Texas Christian 0 0 0 14-14 Baylor 6 19 8 7-40 PACIFIC COAST California 0 14 7-35 U.C.L.A. 0 14 0 7-21 Stanford 0 0 7 0-7 Santa Clara 0 0 0 7-7 U.S.C. 7 20 13-40 Washington...
...convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard, and sat as their leader when the roll call began. When the clerk got to Puerto rice, "Alcalde Jaime Miguel Culeo" delivered the Island's vote for Roosevelt. It was Curley, too, who led the landslide on the fourth roll call that ended in Roosevelt's candidacy for President...