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...level, needed in wartime to encourage food production in the face of shortages and inflation, was due to go out within two years after President Truman declared war's end in 1946. But farm-bloc Congressmen of both parties found that 90% was the sweetest manna in the political crib. Democrats conveniently forgot that in prewar 1938, Congress set the basic-crop price-support floor at only 52%; retrospectively, they sold 90% supports as a New Deal measure. Every two years, Congress extended the 90% supports, and farm surpluses piled up in Government storage houses. Example:the U.S. owns...
...income-tax-cutting amendment onto the Administration's bulky (875 pages) tax-revision bill. Georgia's Walter George had first proposed a $200 increase in the personal exemption, later cut it to $100 when the Republicans stood firm against it. But tax cuts are always the sweetest of music in an election year; at the last minute the G.O.P. leaders thought they were whipped...
...Zither (Ruth Welcome; Cook). Zitherist Welcome captures some of the faded charm of Old Vienna (even in Greensleeves and September Song) and the recording captures some of the sweetest sounds on disks...
...Peters has a voice of exceptional purity and the kind of confidence and musicianship that critics like to call aplomb. Onstage for almost all of Figaro's 2½-hour performance, she skipped through Susanna's role without blowing a cue, delivered herself of some of the sweetest-sounding high notes to be heard anywhere. The packed audience loved her and the press next day agreed. "A direct hi., ' said the Daily News...
...SWEETEST CITY THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN, went to sleep, woke up to find himself under arrest, had to pay a $125 fine for reckless driving...