Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loans. Some such strategy was necessary, for rising farm prices mean an enormous inflationary spiral. Not only food prices would rise, but, since half of our farm produce goes into industrial raw materials, all other prices would go up too. The House Committee has refused to pass a Senate rider to the current appropriation permitting the Administration to sell 125,000,000 bushels of wheat at 72 per cent of parity. The whole bill containing funds for the Department has been held up interminably. Meanwhile the beetles are chewing up our crops, farmers can't get the loans necessary...
...make Paul Revere a very exciting person, and for all her skill and devotion Biographer Esther Forbes has not managed to do much better. But her 464-page biography of the famous night rider, silversmith, dentist, bell caster, copperplate engraver, and revolutionary politician is absorbing reading. Reason: Paul Revere lived so close to the center of the historical storm of Boston (colonial population about 15,000) which influenced world history ever since that the context makes him impressive...
...Return of the circuit rider. Since ministers are allowed gas and tires, one preacher can visit several congregations...
...rider to the questionnaire asked about favorite comics and columnists. Comic winners: Blondie (33%), Li'l Abner, Little Orphan Annie and Gasoline Alley (each 8%). Columnist winners: Westbrook Pegler (26%), Raymond Clapper (19%), Walter Lippmann...
...favorite: Mrs. Payne Whitney's entry of Devil Diver and Shut Out. Devil Diver had not finished out of the money in 13 starts. Shut Out, son of the late, great Equipoise, had been worthy and unworthy of his name. Eddie Arcaro, Mrs. Whitney's contract rider who was itching to win his third Derby, was hard put to decide which to ride. He finally chose the Diver...