Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RICE SUPPORTS will probably be pegged at 90% of parity for 1955. U.S. rice growers have voted by a surprising 9-to-l margin to accept stiff federal controls which will cut back crops 25% from last year's 1,859,000 acres. With the vote, farmers who stay within the controls now expect to get a prop of about $4.90 per 100 Ibs. instead of the $2.75 guarantee (50% of parity) they would get had growers voted down the tight quotas...
...bright, sunny day in the East China Sea. There was a tang in the air and a stiff breeze; the water was choppy but not rough. A good day it was for yachting, a reporter in Taipei sardonically observed. There were plenty of surface craft in the sea off tiny (little more than a half square mile) Yikiang Island, but they were not yachts. The Chinese Communists were successfully invading Yikiang -their first combat seizure of a Nationalist-held island since...
...Zone of Germany. There, in the Prince's Salon of the Hahnhof, he met Konrad Adenauer for the first time since that October night in Paris when the two men battled until 3 a.m. to hammer out an agreement on the Saar. At first, the atmosphere was starch-stiff with formality and suspicion. But as soon as Der Alte recognized that this time Mendès-France was seeking his help, not handing him an ultimatum, the conversation improved...
TRUCK WAR between Ohio and 19 other states over Ohio's stiff axle-mile tax (up to 2½? a mile per truck) on all trucks traveling in the state may be eased by the state legislature this year. Not only have Ohio truckers lost their freedom from local taxes in other states, but the law itself has been a flop; instead of bringing in $20 million in new revenues, it has netted only half that amount and helped drive 18 firms out of the state...
...first plane until 1960. Furthermore, BOAC has serious doubts whether the plane can compete safely over transoceanic air routes. Though its range is listed as 5,100 miles, it drops to 3,900 miles at full payload, leaving only a slim margin of fuel on nonstop flights against stiff North Atlantic headwinds...