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After farm prices sank in the '20s and '30s, the New Deal bolted together the prototype support machinery. Far from dismantling it and building a sounder model as the Depression gave way to postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE $5 BILLION FARM SCANDAL Every Day In Every Way It Gets Worse | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Wheelchairs & Rams. The tribal system that kept the Navajos surviving in the years of poverty has saved most of those on the reservation from yielding to such impulses when the oil starts to flow. Among both Navajos and Utes, money from leases on reservation lands goes not to individuals but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: The Oil Money Flows | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Dr. Bailey's face (on your cover), with its sternly chiseled features and cold, probing eyes, is a haunting one. Here is a man who has looked-literally-into other men's hearts; yet it is hard to conceive of his yielding to the more tender emotions, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

There was much to be done: prayers, lustrations, holy meals-and the sacred scrolls must be taken to the nearby caves and hidden from the impious enemy. Then the Romans came, and in that summer A.D. 68 the Community of the New Covenant at Qumran sank beneath the surging tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Black Market in Scrolls? The study of the fragments has had a stunning impact upon both Jewish and Christian Biblical scholarship. Not only do they provide a wealth of script samples from different eras to advance the science of paleography by a giant step; they provide a far earlier authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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