Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immensely likable lush, and a wizard at the easel. But his pictures never sold well. They lacked extravagance and high polish; for all but the quietest of dining rooms they spoke too softly of small delights. At the end, his wife was forced to take in boarders to support the family. As his last job before he died at 51, Raphaelle Peale was reduced to writing "lovesick poems" for a baker to put in cakes...
Whether the U.S. can much longer afford the huge surpluses being piled up by this efficiency is doubted by most farm experts. Even if the support scandal continues, there is something for U.S. taxpayers to be cheerful about. Rising efficiency keeps down the cost of food. The mountainous grain surplus currently is causing a build-up in cattle-breeding-pointing to an eventual price break...
...rate of 4.7% (v. 2.2% for the rest of the economy). Even more significant, productivity is increasing at an accelerating rate. Last year, it jumped 8%, as much as the increase for the decade 1920-30. This technological fact, ignored by the politicians, is what has made the farm-support program such a failure and scandal. Last year, with farmers paid $620 million to put land in the soil bank, the planted acreage was reduced to the smallest since 1919. But the yield was 11% greater than in the previous record year of 1957. This year, in many crops...
...Alden Thresher, Director of Admissions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, registered enthusiastic support for Wessell's statements. "Perhaps an able student body is more important than a diversified one," he noted. M.I.T.'s student body is a naturally diversified one, he said...
...newly formed Veritas Foundation has sent 15,000 letters to selected alumni, asking financial support to combat "Harvard's trend to the left." Three New York members of the former Veritas Committee, which opposed the 1957 appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer as William James Lecturer, are trustees of the Foundation...