Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation's best-known part-time farmer. After greeting his guests genially, Dwight Eisenhower approvingly examined the heifer, the gift of the Montgomery County (Md.) Fair, and asked how old she was. "Eight or nine months," volunteered a voice. Farmer Eisenhower looked unbelieving. "She's too big for that," he said. The estimate was corrected to 13 months...
...high in some fields, and the contoured hay, wheat and oat fields had been stripped of the harvest. The pastures looked a little parched by the midsummer sun, but a good, drenching rain would (and did, later in the week) bring them back. Farmer Eisenhower had expectations of a fair 1955 crop...
...Trade Fair. The atom's potential as a business was not overlooked. In downtown Geneva, private concerns from nine countries staged their own unofficial "Trade Fair" of atomic products. The largest exhibit is from Britain, which is striving to become the world's atomic workshop. Its firms show the flow meters, leak detectors, radiation monitors, flux meters, etc. which are the simple, indispensable tools of the new technology. The French show a replica of a uranium mine entrance. The U.S. exhibit, with contributions mostly from big firms such as General Electric and Union Carbide, suggested the industrial look...
...plan killed because it would have raised their gas, diesel and tire taxes $1 billion yearly. The small businessmen did all right: the Small Business Administration was extended for two years, and the Justice Department's recommendation (backed by big-city department stores and discount houses) to repeal Fair Trade laws was blocked...
When the record is added up, businessmen fared well in the first session of the 84th Congress. In the investigations, they were lightly tarred by a small group of Fair Dealers. But in legislation-where reason and fairness took hold-they were not hurt. In a year of unprecedented prosperity, when business was hiring more workers, paying more wages and producing more goods than ever before, the U.S. was in no mood to harass its businessmen...