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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase wheat prices an average of 150 a bushel, lower supports for next year's cotton crop from 300 to 210 a pound, with compensatory federal payments to growers who agree to limit production. Overall, the bill aims at reducing the Government's $4 billion annual price tag for farm surpluses by about $100 million. The bill was the product of a House-Senate conference committee, now goes to the Senate...
...outlets for his buying urge: he has boosted the sales of electric guitars and banjos as part of the folk-rock trend, lifted the men's cosmetics industry to a $35 million business in recent years, is buying more jewelry than ever. He looks less at the price tag nowadays than at quality, fashion, style, color. The biggest new main-line item is the color-TV set. Stores are selling all they can get-and in some cases letting go sets that they were saving for Christmas. RCA's David Sarnoff last week predicted that sales this year...
...musty, night-time newsroom, surrounded by Ku Klux Klansmen. In my reverie, he brushed aside like flies the bullets that flew through the paneless windows and fanned his ears. A thin smile formed around his non-filter cigarette as he banged out on his balky machine the fire-breathing tag to the next day's scathing editorial. Hodding Carter, 30-year-old crusading editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, knee-deep in the mire called Mississippi, clawing at the Magnolia Curtain...
Latest blast comes in a 43-page monograph from Milwaukee's Defense Research Institute, which represents 225 companies and 3,800 defense lawyers. Chief target of the D.R.I, is the ad damnum (damages) clause that puts a specific price tag on the injury at issue. Strictly speaking, the dollar amount a plaintiff is claiming is not supposed to sway juries empaneled to determine actual damages based on trial evidence. But, charges the institute, negligence lawyers are using the ad damnum clause for just that purpose...
...current fiscal year; it could soar as high as $12 billion a year thereafter. In addition, congressional eagerness to expand Administration proposals for medicare, social security, regional development, education, housing and other programs will add several billion dollars to the Government's original price tag for the Great Society...