Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years, was soon building a 100,000-acre wheat 'and cattle empire. In 1947 he became the world's No. i grower with a crop of close to 1,000,000 bushels. As any U.S. taxpayer should know, wheat is one of the basic commodities supported by the federal farm program-and in the last four years Garvey has received $791,488 in support loans for wheat he raised, plus $405,647 in cash from the federal soil bank program for the acreage he left idle. But all that wheat, and the wheat grown by other farmers...
Though his papers-particularly Die Welt-have often tempered their pro-Western stands by urging a more conciliatory approach to Russia, Springer's empire has gradually swung toward a firm, unified support of the West's stand on Berlin during the past six months. Says Publisher Springer: "I believe in Germany, a Germany with Berlin as its capital. But not only do I believe in Germany -I want this Germany. And that's why I'm building now in Berlin...
...strapped to a carefully shaped contour couch of fiber-glass plastic. She wore gauze and charcoal diapers for daintiness. Since the g-forces of launching are much less (15 g) than those of hitting the atmosphere (38 g). she was suspended face down so that the bed would support her when the nose cone plunged back toward the earth. The capsule, a 250-lb. cylinder 41 in. long and 18 in. in diameter, contained a heating and cooling system and provided a change of air every 30 seconds. Before Abie's eyes was the light that would flash...
Wilhelm was sent to the Cardinals, then to Cleveland in the American League. The Indian batters gave him no support, their catchers could not hold his knuckle ball and despite a 2.46 earned run average, he had a 2-7 record...
Last week, breaking under the strain, Giulia Orano begged the Roman press to help rescue her and her husband from "terror and desperation . . . decay, disorder and dirt." Only the Communist L'Unitd gave her space and grudging, lukewarm support. In all of Italy there are 300 leprosy victims confined and under treatment, but an estimated 2,000 are hiding out (and therefore going untreated) because they fear a fate like Orano...