Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic problem approaching national scope is in agriculture. Burdened by a glut of surpluses piled up under the old rigid price-support program, the farm economy has been moving downward. The Eisenhower Administration is standing steadfastly behind the principle that the whole economic farm situation will be better, in the long run, if the new flexible price-support system, which is based closer to supply and demand, is given a chance to work...
Emerson's: "The greatest enterprise both for splender and scope is the building...
...sense, the overriding moral issue can in fact be seen only in terms of the procedural aspects of the case. Furry's lawyers have challenged the government's case on a number of grounds: the scope of the authority of the Government Operations Committee of the Senate under the legislative reorganization act of 1946; the pertinency of the investigators' questions; the motives and objectives of Senator McCarthy's subcommittee; the conduct of the particular hearings at which Professor Furry testified in January, 1954; the presence of television cameras in the learning room...
Taylor lays considerable emphasis on the question of the scope of committee power and argues that "Personal compunctions cannot be permitted to obstruct valid official inquiries, but they are entitled to weight in the scales when legal authority is lacking." Even then, Taylor finds an apparent obligation on the part of witnesses to deliver information about others to authorized government officials, especially where considerations of national security may be involved...
Actually, President Smith's "message" was painfully clear. Stripped of such Smith fog as "I want a magazine with scope, not scoop," he had one simple objective: to try to put the company on its feet. When Smith was named president more than a year ago, he knew he had a hard job ahead of him. (Collier's had just taken a drastic step to save itself by changing from a weekly to a biweekly.) But it was harder than he expected. Less than a month after he took over, he found that Crowell-Collier, once...