Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turnabout was caused by an impending worldwide cotton shortage-and the leanest U.S. cotton crop in four years. Bugs, bad weather and the cut in acreage allotments under the support program had slashed the U.S. crop this year to an estimated 9,869,000 bales from 16,128,000 bales in 1949. Brannan hoped that production could be stepped up again to 16 million bales in 1951. But wiping out controls removed only one obstacle; there were plenty more...
People on the moon will be unable to see the sun at 8:30 p.m. (earth time) tonight. Similarly, people on the earth will not be able to see the moon at that time. Turnabout is fair play, of course...
...Turnabout. Doctors in general agreed with this indictment, but individually did little at first to prosecute their case. This they left to the American Medical Association. Once (during World War I), the A.M.A. had favored compulsory, health insurance. But during Dr. Morris Fishbein's long (1924-49) and bellicose editorship of the A.M.A.'s Journal, the tune changed. Though Republican Ray Lyman Wilbur was an M.D. and a past president of the A.M.A., his committee's 1932 report was denounced by Fishbein as "socialism and communism." Under Fishbein's leadership, the A.M.A. at first also opposed...