Word: crop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamie Eisenhower stepped off the train at Philadelphia on the way to christen the nuclear ship Savannah last week (see The Atom), a telegram from the President was handed to her. Turning to a stocky, crop-haired man in her party, she said, "I want to be the first to congratulate you," and passed the telegram along to him. Thus was Frederick H. Mueller, 65, informed that he had been chosen to fill the hole in the Eisenhower team left by the Senate's rejection of Lewis Strauss (TIME, June...
...Signed the agricultural-appropriation bill, with its $50,000 ceiling on loans to each farmer for each crop; also a $13.5 million bill to finance the White House and several general Government agencies, and 36 other minor bills...
...their bills. I don't understand it.") In the $4.6 billion farm-appropriation bill, both houses voted a ceiling on individual farm subsidies to put a stop to subsidy millionaires, but in the final maneuvering it was raised from $50,000 per farmer to $50,000 per crop. ¶ The Senate overrode a favorite project of Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright (and the State Department): putting the Foreign Aid Development Loan Fund on a five-year basis by the device of borrowing $1 billion annually from the Treasury. In mid-debate. South Dakota Republican Francis Case casually made...
Stinging Taunts. Early in March each year, Meo tribesmen journey to the small Laotian town of Xiengkhouang, sell their surplus crop at about $30 a kilo to middlemen, hardheaded types who belong to something known as the Corsican brotherhood. From here the business gets into illicit channels and high prices. By pony caravan, or by light planes that take off from jungle airfields built by the French during their five-year war with Communist Viet Minh, the raw opium is transported to Bangkok and Hong Kong, bought by Chinese dealers at up to $1,000 a kilo and refined into...
Oodles of Noodles. Sending out a Maid to dp a salesman's work is the latest trick of U.S. farmers trying private enterprise methods to sell U.S. crop surpluses. Feed growers are prowling Europe looking for new markets to serve Europe's growing livestock industry; free samples of U.S. fried chicken, cigarettes and doughnuts are being handed out at trade fairs; Italian spaghetti manufacturers are being shown how to make good pasta with U.S. wheat, instead of their traditional but scarce durum wheat...