Word: falling
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...levels. Perishable crops-which account for 75% of U.S. farmers' annual cash income-would also be brought under a permanent price support, many of them for the first time. Here came Charlie's big trick. Prices of perishables (meat, vegetables, poultry, etc.) would be allowed to rise & fall in the market with supply & demand-and thus presumably give the consumer cheaper food. But the farmer would still get high prices because the Government would make up any differences. If, for example, the price of eggs were pegged at 45? and the farmer could sell his for only...
...Next fall the situation will be even more serious. The great G.I. flood, which in one year alone (1947) brought $172 million to the private colleges and $129 million to public institutions, is becoming little more than a trickle. To make matters worse, at the very time that the G.I.s are going out, most campuses face dwindling enrollments as the boys & girls born in the low-birthrate years of the Depression start coming in. Thus, colleges with small endowments and a great dependence on student fees were looking into an uncertain future...
...Hartford, Conn., the Democratic State Central Committee appointed Novelist John (The Wall) Mersey to help draft a party platform on which Governor Chester Bowles will run for a second term this fall...
...comic-strip artist knows, violence is a hard thing to picture convincingly. To make mayhem clear, the comics fall back on such arbitrary and unrealistic conventions as lines trailing from fists, stars suspended at the point of contact, and words like CRASH and POW floating overhead. The Persians were more subtle...
Students will be accepted any time up to the July 5 registration deadline, and Elliott expects this year's totals to fall only slightly short...