Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally effective brake on surplus farm production is the proposal to set the range of price supports at between 60 and 90 per cent of parity. With this weapon, plus elimination of "escalator" supports, Benson admittedly has the power to threaten economic ruin to large areas of agriculture. Yet Congressional charges that Benson wishes to become an agriculture "czar" confuse the threat with his long range goals. An anti-surplus program would eventually stabilize production and demand such that government support and control would be reduced, not increased...
...first quarter, he skipped through the entire left side of the Army line to put Navy in front 6-0. Then he calmly kicked the extra point. He caught passes, pitched laterals and ran like an Army tank all through the rest of the game. When Army did threaten, it was Oldham's interceptions, as much as anything, that threw them back. And in the final quarter he caught an Army punt, navigated 44 yards of Philadelphia mud to score once more. Once more he kicked the extra point...
With the dizzying growth of science and technology in the 20th century, Philosopher Francis Bacon's 16th-century dictum that knowledge is power has come fully and prophetically true. Advances in abstract scientific theory can promise or threaten next year's breakthroughs in the technology of national power. And on the sidelines of the science-technology race, the backward nations, eager for progress and wary of winding up in the loser's camp, watch intently to see how Russia fares in competition with the West...
...TARIFF FIGHT will erupt over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
...Crimson started to threaten the Engineer's line immediately after talking the opening kick-off, and after ten minutes, with the side already reduced to 14 men by Henderson's injury, a fine three-quarter movement ended with right wing Langi Kavaliku taking a pass from Jim Damis to score in the corner. The difficult conversion, taken from opposite the scoring spot, missed...