Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitchell stated that rigid supports provide a solid base for planning and raise farmers to almost even terms with industry, "I'm not too concerned over charges that 'the inefficient are rewarded' or the farmer is regimented," he wrote. "Farmers have concluded that one of the freedoms they enjoy under production controls--a good price--is more valuable than the supposed freedoms they might have under an unsupported program...
During the meeting Lambert told the regents, "If teachers and research men in our public institutions are to make contributions to social problems, they must have the solid backing of the governing bodies of these institutions. I urge you as strongly as I can to give such backing in this case...
irked by the solid symmetrical...
...billion, an alltime high, up 3% from July (the previous record month) and up a full 8% over August 1953. In the first eight months of 1954, construction totaled $23.7 billion, another alltime record, 4% above the comparable period last year. Construction is still going up on a solid foundation, e.g., private residences, highway building and public-utility improvements...
...Decter (former political editor for the Voice of America and self-labeled Stevenson Democrat) begin with the sound premise that in the Roosevelt and early Truman Administrations, a number of Communists and fellow travelers slipped into the Federal Government. This fact, Rorty and Decter point out, gave McCarthy a solid runway for his take-off as a Communist fighter in 1950. They grant that the furor caused by McCarthy did help to bring needed attention to the problem of Communist infiltration. But at about that point, the credit side of their McCarthy ledger begins to go blank...