Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Departed for a holiday-season visit to his farm at Gettysburg, where he planned to combine rest with work on his State of the Union message...
...working over the faults and weaknesses of the U.S., a TIME correspondent drove into California's San Joaquin Valley to bring up to date a story of fault and weakness that fascinated the pundits 25 years ago. His question: Whatever happened to the Okies-the thousands of desperate farm families that fled drought and Depression and swarmed into California in the 1930s? The answer turned out to be a story of adversity that turned to strength for both a migrant people and a region of fabulous fertility. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Harvesters...
AGRICULTURE. No one is satisfied with the present patchwork farm program, and the Administration is preparing a new one. But not very many people are expected to be satisfied with it, either...
...banknotes." Briefly, this meant that whenever Mr. Huntington wanted something, he prayed for it, and then made his prayer known to impressionable people who were glad to oblige. Soon, God's overdraft was alarming, as Mr. Huntington had put on his tab "a country house, a well-stocked farm, a coach." Huntington died leaving a self-written epitaph which ended...
...Cure. Near O'ney, Ill., irritated by wasps that buzzed around the barn, Farm Hand Harold Weber decided to smoke them out, burned more than 5,000 bales of hay, 2,000 bushels of barley, 200 loads of manure, a utility shed, a garage, three drums of gasoline and the barn...