Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it was a considerable victory over Benson's old enemy-parity. This price-propping concept, which has been built into farm legislation since 1933, is a formularized measure of the relationship between the prices of farm products and other goods. The Benson-backed alternative: a price support based on 90% of the average market price over the previous three years before the crop is raised and sold. Beginning with parity-inflated market prices, the new formula would let prices slip by easy stages until, says Benson, the law of supply and demand begins to take over and surpluses...
Edmondson got only a drop of professional political support. Just one Congressman-Ed Edmondson, who happens to be Howard's older brother-along with two of the 165 state legislators, rallied to his cause, though a surprising flock of younger men around the state seemed eager to campaign for him. Smart money gave him no better than third place in the eleven-man first primary. Odds-on favorite: Dry-Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat...
...Mail legalistic pamphlets in support of Arkansas' Racist Governor Orval Faubus to 20,000 Little Rock voters on the eve of their gubernatorial primary...
Into this poisoned atmosphere moved De Gaulle. Shrewdly distinguishing between the Tunisians' natural sympathy for Algerian independence and their own need for continued French economic support, De Gaulle withdrew French troops from southern Tunisia, pulled back to the French Mediterranean base at Bizerte and let Bourguiba know that he wanted his friendship...
...Ohio and elsewhere, but the sun is shining most brightly over Stratford, Connecticut. If great things are done for Shakespeare, they seem certain to be done here. Much progress has been made, much remains to be made. The people involved must not slacken for a moment. We must support them to the limit and say, "Get on with the job." They in turn must do just that; for that is now their duty as well as their privilege...