Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pick Your Yield. The one redeeming feature of the new law is that price supports are based on 90% of the average selling price on the open market of the last three years, with a floor of 65% of parity. This year market prices are poor. Farm storage space is already so taxed that farmers will have to sell much of their crop in the open market at prices as low as 90? per bu., for the lack of a place to store it. Averaged over three years, the lower prices mean that a 4?-to-6? drop is possible...
...tier" fare system was blocked by Britain's big BOAC, which fought for a "three-tier" system (economy, tourist, first class) with the lowest fares pegged as much as 20% below tourist rates. Other lines felt that fare schedules are already complex enough, gave the British plan no support. Ranged against any immediate fare cut were some of the small national flag airlines, which are government-owned and heavily subsidized; they operate at a loss already and fear that lower rates would only push them farther into the red. Said one delegate from a small national airline: "If economy...
...educational institution which claims to support the search for truth wherever it may lie can coexist with any law that makes some form of thought a crime," it states...
While the report emphasizes that the University "should continue to support federal aid to higher education in principle," it espouses a strong skepticism of the Government's willingness to provide funds without some control...
...arguments raised against a poll is that "students do not know enough about money" to legislate for their own good on this matter, but this view has relatively little support and does not merit rebuttal here...