Word: formula
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Parity is a formula for adjusting farm support prices according to the prices farmers have to pay for the things they buy (fertilizer, tractors, etc.). The aim is to give the farmers' dollar the same purchasing power it had in 1910-14. No other segment of the U.S. economy has the same government guarantee. Parity prices are revised monthly by the Department of Agriculture...
Though a Russian veto had blocked Security Council action (TIME, Dec. 11), no move was made to bring the issue before the General Assembly under the new formula that permits veto-free condemnation of aggressors and recommendations for action against them. Instead, the U.S., Britain, France, Norway, Cuba and Ecuador offered the Assembly a resolution charging Red China with "intervention" in Korea, asking withdrawal of its troops, promising protection for China's border rights. The six powers made no suggestions for U.N. countermeasures...
Young Man. The Carthusian Order now has about 750 members in its 26 houses in Europe. Their best known product is the heady liqueur, Chartreuse, which they have made since the 17th Century from a secret formula. But the real Carthusian preoccupation is prayer. Pope Pius XI said of the Carthusians that their special duty is, like Moses in the fight between the Israelites and the Amalekites, to be on the mountain praying while the battle is being fought out below...
...Missouri Raid (Nat Holt), Quantrill's Raiders (Paramount). Confederate veterans are .due to turn up in the postbellum Wild West as, among other things, bandits (RKO's Best of the Bad Men) and railroad builders (Columbia's Santa Fe). In Nat Holt's Warpath, the formula gets a bold switch: a Civil War veteran (Edmond O'Brien) goes west, all right, but he's a Yankee...
Nobody else seemed either able or anxious to follow the Giants' formula. Unless somebody did, and soon, the Browns seemed headed for the pro-league playoffs and a good chance at the N.F.L. championship...