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Essentially both statements mean the same thing-i.e., that he wants to wipe out the rigid, 90%-of-parity price supports adopted in wartime, because he is convinced that they only build up the surplus and will not really sustain prices. He favors a flexible price-support system ranging down to 75% of parity for crops in surplus and up to 90% for crops in demand, because he feels this will discourage production of surpluses and give the law of supply and demand a chance to operate to the farmers' eventual benefit...
Hardest hit of all would be Minnesota's four beet sugar refineries; unrestricted ad mission of Cuban sugar would wipe out the uneconomic growth of sugar beets by Minnesota farmers...
...deeply thoughtful. The most eloquent of the abolitionists was yellow-haired Bevanite Sydney Silverman, whose sarcastic, extreme left-wing speeches usually irritate the House; in this debate he heard a rare cheer as he urged "free men, free women, free Members of Parliament in a free society to wipe this dark stain from our statute books...
Commercial interests are the strongest opponents of the slum pattern, because their investment is normally centered on the local market. A restaurant or haberdashery cannot simply move somewhere else, for to do so means to wipe out the existing source of revenue. Yet to remain means strangulation, as traffic slows, parking problems make stores inaccessible, and the clientele is down-graded...
Like many a disillusioned man, Bhave has changed his attitude from a vague idealism to a desperate radicalism. Said he, dashing aside the garlands that were thrust upon him last week: "Bhoodan stands for land revolution by abolishing private ownership. I want to wipe out individual land ownership...