Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Economic adviser: Leon Keyserling, chairman of Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The Farmers Union was organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving the lot of low-income "dirt farmers." Today it argues that the American farmer has as much right to Government subsidies as the railroad and airline industries, clings to the motto: "True Parity for Real Prosperity." Says President Patton: "We will coordinate our efforts with organized labor. We will work to elect Congressmen, Senators and a President...
...Walker waited out a 2 and 1 count and then belted a deep single to left center. The Sox' Ted Williams fielded the ball and tossed it in to Johnny Pesky at short. Pesky, hesitant, bobbled it for a moment and then relayed a wide and in-the-dirt peg to Hal Wagner at the plate. But Slaughter had already scored from first...
...tests in Siberia, he set two large porcelain dishes filled with water in the yard behind his Tokyo laboratory and let dust settle into them for 24 hours. He evaporated the water and got from each square meter 150 milligrams (.005 oz.) of dust. Most of it was ordinary dirt from Tokyo's grimy atmosphere, but the remainder was highly radioactive, and could be analyzed...
Under the plan seven areas of South Africa would be set up and developed as "national homes" on an exclusively black basis. The commission envisioned black towns run by black mayors, all-black factories, all-black farms, railways, highways and power lines where now there are only dirt paths and clumps of native huts. Negroes in 154 "black spots" in the midst of white areas would be transported to the new reserves. The whole western half of Cape province would be set aside for South Africa's 1,000,000 mixed blood "coloreds...
Confidential, whose 3,674,423 circulation now makes it the top single-copy newsstand seller in the U.S., has been attracting libel suits along with circulation. Last week Publisher Robert Harrison's bimonthly dirt digest admitted making its first payment for libel: a $9,000 out-of-court settlement to Lyle Stuart, editor of Expose (circ. 20,000), a muckraking monthly tabloid...