Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful, the ground is gushing oil, and people are getting rich from a boom that is now a decade old. In that time the capital city of Caracas has more than tripled in size to 1,100,000; the nation's population has swelled to 6,133,900. Farm hands are flocking to the cities; immigrants from Spain and Italy are pouring in. A primitive land ten years ago, Venezuela today shops for the delicacies of the world. Through the broad, temperate mountain valley that houses Caracas, Jaguars, Ferraris, Thunderbirds, Cadillacs crowd the six-lane autopistas...
...another 85% by 1966. Oil now accounts for about $2 billion in exports, or about 95% of the yearly total. Iron-ore production, mostly by the United States Steel Corp. mines at Cerro Bolivar, increased by a third in 1957 to about 15 million tons. Irrigation projects and rapid farm mechanization have boosted agriculture until Venezuela now produces 85% of its own food. New investments and a protectionist policy for inefficient industry have boosted production of everything from paint and cement to soap and tires...
Huggins might also have been describing his leading man. Born James Baumgarner in Norman, Okla., Garner grew up on a farm he "hated," rode two miles to school, on horseback, and took pot shots at odd jobs (traveling salesman, oilfield worker, the Merchant Marine), which he always quit "when I got bored." He drifted to Hollywood, where he helped his father lay carpets, modeled bathing suits for Jantzen, and returned to his home state to become the first Oklahoma draftee called into the Korean war. Four years later an old soda-jerk friend, Producer Paul Gregory, gave Garner...
...doesn't arouse the cad in a man. It brings out the uncle." And another thing: Maria's earthy body makes a startling contrast to her heavenly face. From her father's side of the family she has inherited the chunky frame of a Swiss farm girl, with heavy hips and strapping thighs. Richard Brooks, who directed her in Karamazov, sums up: "She isn't the sort of girl who gives you sweaty palms...
...months. For fiscal 1959, there will probably be another boost of at least $2 billion (to $41 billion for actual defense spending), plus a $5 billion boost in the obligational authority for future defense contracts. The Administration hopes to hold down the totals by cutting such items as the farm program and aid to veterans, but few politicos think it will be successful. If anything, spending on the farm program-a huge $5 billion in 1957-may rise in 1958 to keep surplus food from collapsing the market. At year's end the 1958 harvest of the winter wheat...