Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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 35? a dozen in the market, the Government would give him the extra 10?. Instead of paying twice for farm support, in taxes and high prices, said Brannan smoothly...
...major farmers' organizations, the 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation and the 820,000-member National Grange had taken one look and gone to war against it; only the 500,000-member National Farmers Union was for it. The Congress had sniffed in horror, refused to make even a small test of the Brannan Plan, reverted instead to another year of rigidly high parity supports to be followed next year-maybe-by a halfhearted experiment in flexible supports. The Democrats themselves had haggled over the Plan; Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas, fighting desperately for reelection, had flatly...
...Plan, nevertheless, had to survive the criticisms of most farm economists and many farm legislators. To critics the Brannan proposals looked as dangerous as the malady they were supposed to cure. Nobody could make an honest prediction of what it would cost, including Charlie Brannan himself (he thought it might be no more than the present program); other guesses ranged as high as $9.5 billion a year...
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...
Four Keys to the Reliquary. Orvietans decided to build a cathedral (one of the most beautiful in all Italy) in which to keep their corporal. A Sienese artist, Ugolino di Vieri, was commissioned to make a reliquary to hold the corporal. Made of silver with exquisite enamel representations of Christ's Passion and tiny figures in true gold, the reliquary with the corporal has been Orvieto's proudest possession for more than six centuries. Because of a tendency by Orvieto's bishops to regard the reliquary as the exclusive possession of the church, there have been various...