Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's election of top state officers, Kentucky Democrats crushed the Republicans under a mountain-sized landslide that shot tremors through the remaining GOProvinces in the farm belt...
Elected Kentucky's Governor by an alltime-record majority (515,299 to 335,404): Bert Thomas Combs, 48, wiry (5 ft. 10 in.), handsome ex-judge from the mountain-valley town of Prestonsburg (pop. 3,585, altitude 645 ft). Combs exploited a year of falling farm income by attacking his opponent, G.O.P. ex-Congressman (1952-58) John M. Robsion Jr., for pro-Benson votes while in the House-and never missed a chance to mispronounce Robsion's name "Ro-Ben-son." Combs's running mate for Lieutenant Governor, onetime Louisville Mayor Wilson Watkins Wyatt...
France scaled down (from 30% to 27%) import duties on U.S. autos, electric razors, farm machinery. France is giving the U.S. the same reductions it gives its Common Market neighbors. Import quotas on about 200 items ranging from textiles to household appliances were also scrapped, and Pinay promised to junk all remaining import quotas within two years. Foreign-trade experts doubt that this will mean any sizable overall boost in U.S. sales in competition with heavily protected French industry...
...staff in Haiti to 66 technicians, including an art professor from the University of California, a traffic expert sent to study Port-au-Prince's breakneck driving habits, a platoon of agronomists to start Operation Poté Colé (Pull Together), which is designed to hike farm productivity in once-fertile northern Haiti. Taking up a desk just down the hall from Finance Minister Andre Theard, ICA's Nolle Smith, 70, a Negro economist from Wyoming, has helped cut petty corruption and inefficiency, is now sitting in on talks about a schedule of taxes and customs duties. Cost...
...increase has spread more evenly throughout the economy than in '55. Many banks report increased loans on farm equipment, mobile homes, boats, and such new lending ideas as the revolving credit plans...