Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp-thorned fact that in the U.S. today too many people are trying to make a living as farmers. To help low-income farm families escape into other livelihoods, and at the same time to ease the problems of surpluses. Rockefeller proposed a long-term "land-use program" similar to what the Committee for Economic Development advocated two years ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1957). Under this program, the Federal Government would rent entire farms for long periods, take the land out of crop production and put it to "such uses as reforestation and conservation." As a "start," Rockefeller urged retirement...
...Maplecrest" here in Princeton. Without going into a long treatise on the subject, I would like to say that six years ago we bought our house for $14,500 before the advent of Maplecrest. Today the value has increased to the $20,000-$22,000 range. Houses similar to ours have sold for this amount just as quickly "after Maplecrest" as before...
Transmission) signed up on a similar profit-sharing basis for a minimum investment of $126 million...
Kneepads, shin guards beneath her stockings, and sponge rubber tucked under her garter belt have not been enough to protect Patty from assorted cuts, bruises and a chipped tooth. Similar padding from ankle to bustle have not saved Anne from equally painful accidents. "The impulse during rehearsal," says Director Arthur Penn, "was to set the fight scene, to plan every move and response." But then he saw his stars at work. Once Actress Bancroft had persuaded Patty not to hold back ("Naw! You come on and hit me!"), the scrap quickly developed into impromptu reality, a little different every night...
...Manhattan store packed with Christmas shoppers, an impatient customer stopped in front of a display typewriter and banged out a desperate note: "Why don't you wait on me?" All over the U.S. last week, harried clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate hordes of well-heeled customers who nocked into the stores for a record Christmas-buying spree. Dun & Bradstreet analysts estimated that sales in the nation's department stores and mail-order houses will reach a record $2.4 billion in December, up $200 million from 1958, the previous record...