Word: corn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bustin' Out All Over. The best performance in the picture, however, is given by Jacques d'Amboise of the New York City Ballet. He revives the tired style of dancing developed by Choreographer Agnes de Mille like a bucket of fresh water on a wilted stalk of corn...
...uncultivated parts of confiscated estates; more, inflamed by the example, simply seized land amid scenes of bloodshed and destruction. After Castillo Armas took power, many landlords grabbed back their holdings with equal violence. The bulk of the 1,950,000 indifferent, largely illiterate Indians stayed unbenefited on their subsistence corn patches high in the mountains...
...written with the advice of U.S. farm experts, makes many changes. Recognizing that one good solution is to get the landless mountain peasants onto fertile, government-owned lowlands (which can grow three crops of corn a year), it tempts them with homesteads at low prices. Recognizing also the popular demand for land redistribution, it provides for the well-compensated expropriation of idle parts of big estates and their division among the landless. The new plan offers technical assistance, credit, housing and "fundamental agrarian education" aimed at turning the withdrawn Indians into cash-crop farmers and cash-spending consumers. In contrast...
Egypt's agricultural adjustment act of about 1800 B.C., outlined in the later chapters of Genesis, did not bring general acclaim to the secretary of agriculture. Given authority over the land, Joseph stored corn in the plenteous years and sold it back to the people during the famine for gold rings, cattle and land. But there has been great dispute about Joseph's right to appropriate surplus crops and then compel the people to pay for them. What is more, his system eventually resulted in state ownership of all the land, and some people thought that was entirely...
...Iowa, where 1956 politics begins with the price of corn and ends with the price of hogs. Dr. Haridas T. Muzumdar, 55, India-born American and a professor at Mt. Vernon's Cornell College, announced that he will campaign for the Republican congressional nomination in Iowa's Second District on a foreign policy platform. His program: "To carry on a campaign whose one purpose shall be a discussion of how to win our Asian and African neighbors as friends and co-workers . . ." A friend and biographer of Gandhi, Dr. Muzumdar is less concerned with beating G.O.P. Incumbent Henry...