Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategic position in the age of long-range bombers, rocket-firing submarines and atomic warheads. To be prepared for "the only possible enemy-Communist Russia," says Baldwin, Canada should give "complete and entire cooperation" to Britain and the U.S. He skips lightly over Canada's ability to support the program of cooperation that he sets out in definite terms...
...last week, pretty Actress Rita Hayworth, whose face and figure are her fortune, and the opulent Aly Khan, who has less visible means of support, passed through Manhattan bound for Britain, Switzerland and, possibly, marriage. Readers of the tabloid New York Daily News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies...
...high food prices were not likely to decline so long as the high support prices for farm products were continued. In its nearly 30-year history, the federation, strongest U.S. farm lobby, has always gone down the line for price supports and for guaranteed markets. Congress had seldom failed to heed its cry. This year it was the Southern cotton and tobacco growers who came out strongest for keeping farm support prices as high as possible and for extending them to commodities that are not being supported under the present law (e.g., fruits and vegetables...
...year raised $40,000 worth of hogs and hybrid corn on his Vinton (Iowa) farm; he also found time to sit on the board of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank. He believes that if farmers are to stay free enterprisers, they should not rely too heavily on Government support...
...props were just right. The Middle Western farmers thought so too, helped Kline defeat the Southern proposal and got the federation to go on record in favor of the Hope-Aiken Act. But it also urged Congress to enact a permanent law making any agricultural commodity eligible for price support. No one suggested that the farmers prove they were the free enterprisers they fancied themselves by eventually doing away with all price supports, any more than other businessmen would do away with tariffs...