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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four-State Experiment. Benson's 1956 soil bank plan was supposed to cut farm production, but after an expenditure of $61 million, out popped the new heads: while letting a farmer bank part of his land, it left him free to boost output on the unbanked acres, and surpluses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: How to Fight a Hydra | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Mississippi's lenient marriage laws (no blood test, no waiting period, no parental consent for youngsters) have long made the state a Dixie Gretna Green. Of the state's 66,000 wedding licenses a year, 65% are drawn by out-of-staters who skip across the border from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Hit & Mrs. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Life in Brooklyn was tough enough for the Dodgers' fireballing pitcher, Don Newcombe. His good right arm ached all summer long and the doctors could find little wrong; opposition batters were beginning to tag him, and he wound up the 1957 season with a dismal record of eleven victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Talking Trouble | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, pointed out that a group of professors under the chairmanship of Jerrold Zacharias, professor of Physics at M.I.T., has made a study of the problems involved in presenting physics to students at the secondary level. These professors, from both the University and M.I.T., might...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: City Asks College Aid On Science Curriculum | 12/19/1957 | See Source »

Canada's new Conservative government, carried into office last summer in a razor's-edge upset victory, moved last week to make good on the brave campaign talk of a $500 million tax cut. In a modest beginning, the Tories proclaimed personal income-tax reductions (effective Jan. 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Tax Cuts | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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