Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations. He urged Congress to abandon the parity formula-based on farm prices and farm costs in 1910-14, good years for U.S. farmers-and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set price supports between 75% and 90% of the average market price in the preceding three years. As an alternative, if Congress could not bring itself to discard the parity idea, Ike suggested that Benson get authority to set support prices as low as 60% of parity...
...Western Europe, Communist strength is down. In the Middle East, Arab nationalism is for the first time beginning to show substantial misgivings about Communism's brotherly support. Not long ago those Misters In-Between-Nehru, Nasser and Tito-were neutral in Moscow's favor; now they all have their doubts...
Some unknown force must support the bulges, which could not exist if the earth were a simple, spinning mass of plastic material. One possibility: the earth's mantle (the 1,800-mile layer below the crust) may not be as plastic as has been thought. It may have mechanical strength, like brickwork, that keeps the earth out of shape. Another possibility: the bulges are supported by slow currents in the mantle, which push up the surface like massive bubbles in a spring...
There were only six weeks in which to ready Squaw Valley's bid for consideration as the U.S. nominee to stage the games. Cushing moved quickly, enlisted the support of California State Senator Harold ("Biz") Johnson and Governor Goodie Knight, got the legislators to revive an old bill that had promised Los Angeles money to back its successful 1932 Summer Olympics bid, pass a new version to guarantee $1,000.000 for Squaw. Old Friend and Squaw Stockholder (5%) Laurance Rockefeller gave his support. With evidence of financial backing, a hastily prepared brochure and a charming dissertation on Squaw...
Last week one leading Vatican spokesman said that "the chances of healing the rift between the Roman and Orthodox churches are better now than they have been for hundreds of years." A major factor in the new climate has been Vatican support of the Orthodox churches against increasing pressure from Moscow. But one immovable foundation of Roman doctrine seems to stand in the path of reunion: the insistence that the Bishop of Rome is successor of St. Peter, Vicar of Christ and supreme ruler of all Christians...