Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheerful voices pointed out that the heavy sag in employment from October to November-1,132,000-was largely the result of unusually wet, wintry weather that cut more than seasonally deep into farm employment. But with the steel industry operating at 69% of capacity, down from 102% a year ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Economic Research Director Emerson P. Schmidt predicted that 1958 would very likely see a recession "at least as severe...
...mythology was a tough monster to be up against: every time a head was cut off, two more promptly grew in its place.* Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson sometimes feels as harried and frustrated as a man trying to kill a Hydra. Under Benson, as under his Democratic predecessors, farm surpluses have kept right on piling up, and the nation's yearly price-support bill has kept getting bigger...
Four-State Experiment. Benson's 1956 soil bank plan was supposed to cut farm production, but after an expenditure of $61 million, out popped the new heads: while letting a farmer bank part of his land, it left him free to boost output on the unbanked acres, and surpluses set new records. Last week Benson announced a new plan that might at least keep the struggle even: get entire farms out of crop production. Beginning right away, he said, the Agriculture Department will let farmers in four scattered test states-Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, Tennessee-submit land-rental bids. When...
...whole-farm-retirement idea made sound sense to the U.S.'s biggest farmer organization, the 1,600,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation. Meeting in Chicago last week, the A.F.B.F. called for a "special effort" by the Government to get whole farms into a long-term conservation reserve. Benson's new approach also made sense, as a step in the right direction, to the respected Committee for Economic Development, a private organization of high-level businessmen and educators. In a thoughtful farm-policy study released last week, C.E.D. argued that it would be cheaper for the Government...
...player who has put in four years of minor-league ball is now eligible for drafting (i.e., hiring) by any major-league club. Under the old rule, major-league owners of farm clubs could leave employees in the minors subject only to their own call. Promising rookies hired as "bonus babies" will no longer have to ride major-league benches but can be sent to the minors for seasoning...