Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan links support prices to the average market prices for the preceding three years (abandoning the old parity ratio based on 1910-14 figures), the Benson program will admittedly lead to a gradual downstep of prices each year. Benson believes that dropping prices will ultimately cut down the amount of wheat raised; U.S. farmers, past masters of food production, bet that they can keep their incomes from falling too fast by increasing their crop yields. Congress rejected Benson's wheat proposal last session, but this time Benson counts on a powerful new weapon: Ike's promise...
...standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism toward foreign archaeologists. Instead of permitting foreign diggers to take away only a limited amount of their finds, Culture Minister Okasha offers participating governments one-half of all objects unearthed in any new excavations they make in the lands to be flooded.* Further, he promises to give other ancient monuments, not yet designated, to governments providing the most technical and financial assistance...
...major issue in the strike will not be wages but work rules. The Association of American Railroads--one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington--has started a nation-wide advertising campagin deploring the amount of feather-bedding throughout the nation. "Let us change the outdated work rules," the A.A.R. says, "and we can save $500 million per year, thus letting us compete more effectively and serve more efficiently...
Polls taken in four House dining halls will help determine possible money-saving methods of serving food next term. For four days last week, students employed by Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, tabulated the amount of food students put on their trays...
Checkers worked in Adams, Kirkland, Lowell, and Winthrop, noting both the amount of food students picked up and the quantities left over after the meal. However, Tucker observed that results of the survey may not be fully valid, since "students do not consume as much food as normal when they are being checked...