Word: baling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible return to Democratic high-price supports, dropped last week in the sharpest break since May 1954. One big reason was an unofficial estimate by the Journal of Commerce that the cotton crop would exceed Government figures; this touched off a reaction which sent cotton plunging $10 a bale for the maximum permissible drop, followed by eggs, corn, soybeans and wheat...
...equipment dealer: "In 1946, we sold six cotton pickers For the next eight years we never sold less than 100 machines, and in 1951 our sales-went over 200." Today, there are about 1,500 cotton pickers in Kern County harvesting cotton at an average $10 to $20 per bale v. $50 to do the job by hand...
...luck was too good to last. At Monte Carlo last week, Ascari catapulted through a bale of hay and landed in the Mediterranean. This time he was badly cut around the head. Only four days later, though, he was back at the wheel, testing a car on the Monza track. He was a national hero; he seemed to feel Italy expected such perseverance. In a borrowed 3,000-liter Ferrari, Ciccio Ascari, 36, spun into a crash for the last time. He was dead before the ambulance reached the hospital...
...picture seem a little weak. An Amish farmer (Ernest Borgnine), committed by his deepest beliefs to non violence, kills the last of the killers to save the life of an innocent man (Victor Mature). He drives a pitchfork into the brute's back as if he were a bale of hay; and yet as he strikes, his eyes convey the heart-stricken awareness, as his lips express the unshakable determination, of an Abraham commanded by a higher power to destroy a life that is dear to him. In this scene, the morality of violence is brought vividly into question...
...kitchen, nor by the dogs sleeping under the stove . . . nor the continuous parade of newborn pigs and lambs in bushel baskets by the kitchen stove. She should be farm-reared . . . It takes a woman a long time to learn how to get her weight properly under a bale...