Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fertilizers, more and bigger farm machinery, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plants. But even his friends have begun to wonder whether he may have hindered rather than helped his announced aims. He justly carps at Capitol Hill's farm-vote-minded refusal to grant him all the support-shrinking powers he has asked for ("Our recommended program has never been given a real try"), but he has not always used the powers that he has to limit price supports, e.g., he voluntarily provided generous Government price support for millions of bushels of corn raised outside his acreage-restriction...
...were the master of the problem, when actually he has been the slave of it." But whatever marks Benson deserves for his six-year effort, it is inescapably obvious that he is correct in his blunt demands for a new farm program to replace the depression-vintage, price-support apparatus, which operates like the unstoppable sorcerer's apprentice's broom-to make worse the problem it was designed to cure...
...leaflet shells the Communists offered the Quemoy garrison attractive surrender terms; by letters routed through Hong Kong, they offered top Nationalists big bribes if they would desert. At the same time they beat on the theme that with the U.S. elections due on Nov. 4, there could be no support in the U.S. for helping Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek. But as the U.S. position held firm, and as the Red China military bogged down, the Communists shifted to a new line. The Russians said they had been misunderstood, would never enter a "civil war." Peking radio called no more...
...Richard Nixon, whose support the insurgents had originally counted upon, went to a couple of White House conferences and suddenly became noncommittal...
...Kentucky's middle-roading Senator Thruston Morton, who had been an Eisenhower State Department appointee and remains thoroughly responsive to the President's wishes, announced that he would vote for the Old Guard candidate for Senate leader, Illinois Everett Dirksen. Exception: he would support his Kentucky colleague, John Sherman Cooper, sponsored by Connecticut's Prescott Bush, for Republican leader if Cooper got into the running. But later Cooper withdrew...