Word: though
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring on the greatest wheat glut of all. In Washington, Chairman Morton, though privately gloomy about Benson's decision to stay on, did a public turnabout from Black Sunday, urged fellow Republicans to "sell" Benson in the farm belt, not sell him out. When Benson heard that news, an austere but unmistakable smile of victory spread across his face...
Behind the bow to Powell lay a close reading of the Granite State's grass roots by a Nixon scouting team. Conclusion: though Nixon is a heavy favorite, Powell's personal following (judged to be worth 10% of the vote) would insure a thumping victory over Likely Challenger Rockefeller, whose backers are primed to cry "Nixon can't win" if their man comes close to winning in the primary. Also rumors were flying that the Governor had also had the offer of the national chairmanship of Rocky's campaign in exchange for his support. Reportedly under...
...most forward-looking contribution to the U.S. was his acceptance of labor-saving machinery for an industry that was in decline. In the teeth of competition from natural gas and oil, Lewis wrote the contracts to help the coal owners, came out unequivocally for automation and higher productivity even though that meant redeployment of many of his miners and a faster decline of his mighty U.M.W. from 600,000 after World War II to 430,000 today...
...knowledge of rigging. Nevertheless, in an angry letter of resignation last week, Cowan accused his boss, CBS Inc.'s President Frank Stanton, of trying to force him out. Wrote Cowan: "You do not want a man who has had an association with quiz shows, even though his association was honest and honorable...
...heart attack; in Manhattan. Fleet-footed Bart Crum grabbed headlines in 1953 by chasing Aly Khan around the world to win a $1,000,000 divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte lay in endlessly championing a multitude of causes, some of them conflicting. Though he had once served as counsel to the Hearst publications, he published New York City's far left PM (renamed the New York Star) for a year (1948) until it folded. As a Republican, he managed Wendell Willkie's 1940 campaign in the West, but since then supported every...