Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Longmont decided to end its big Saturday night. Thanks to mechanization on the farms and better roads, farm families no longer save Saturday night for the old ritual; they have more time, can shop more frequently. To Chamber of Commerce members, the proof was plain enough: Saturday-night business has been dropping regularly for years. Henceforth, Longmont stores will stay open on Wednesday night for late shoppers, close early on Saturday night. Said a C. of C. member: "It was strictly a matter of yielding to the agrarian revolution and the tempo of our times." Added a farmer...
...socialist world, which does away with all hardship." He scoffed at the members of the U.S. Congress as "all representatives of large capital, no real workers or farmers." asserted (with a pre-election confidence possible only to dictatorships) that the new Supreme Soviet will include 44% factory or collective-farm workers. It will also include 26% women, he said, as against 3% women in the U.S. Congress. "There are no two ways about it," he concluded. "Only socialism brings true freedom...
...demonstrative audiences. Standing before giant-sized portraits of himself, blue eyes blazing, he heaps scorn on his political opponents ("they talked; we acted"), blames Liberal policies for Canada's recession, promises a huge public-works program. With occasional overtones of Yankee-baiting, he sweepingly blames the farm recession on the dumping of U.S. surpluses, calls for the creation of new industries to process Canadian raw materials instead of "exporting them to make jobs for Americans...
While most national magazines are out after new subscribers, so they can raise their advertising rates, the Farm Journal is earnestly doing just the opposite. The 81-year-old monthly is trying to winnow some 220,000 non-farm readers out of its circulation of 3,533,956 and is already paring its ad rates accordingly. Last week readers without R.F.D. addresses were considering a special query from the magazine: "Do you own, operate, live on, work on a farm, or do business with a farmer?" If the answer was no, the subscriber got the choice of a cash rebate...
SOIL-BANK HANDOUTS will be boosted from $500 million to $750 million this year because so many farmers rushed to cash in on acreage reserve program, scheduled to expire in 1959. Boost will cut market for farm labor and supplies, pinch many rural merchants. Example: in Georgia each dollar paid by soil bank will take an estimated $3 to $5 out of circulation in farm towns...