Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruel coincidence, nature has dealt India a brutal blow. Across the north-central farm belt in recent weeks some 4,000,000 tons of grain have been lost in the worst drought to hit India since 1951. Just to keep the 25 million people in the drought area alive, India will have to import an additional 2,000,000 tons of grain, at an estimated cost of another $100 million in foreign exchange...
...second stroke in 1945. That left Eddie all alone with memories of mother. He closed off the sitting room, filled with family portraits and other reminders of the dead, and the room where is mother had passed her last year. He did not bother to work the farm, supported himself with odd jobs for neighbors...
...Saturday morning (most of the men were out for the opening of the deer season) and shot Bernice Worden, 58, proprietor of a general store, with a .22 rifle from her own stock. He had loaded the body nto the store's pickup truck, driven it out to his farm. He was finishing a hearty dinner (pork chops, macaroni and cheese, Dickies, coffee and cookies) with his neighbors the Hills when the police arrived to pick...
...once entered, he was convinced by exhibitions of Cezanne and Picasso that academicism was not for him, went home to work on his own. Within a year, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Artist Soulages was in uniform as an artilleryman, after the fall of France worked as a farm laborer...
...down 2 points to 142 on the Federal Reserve Board's index, compared to the boom peak of 147. Though overall employment in October increased slightly to a monthly record of 66 million-and unemployment decreased to 2,500,000-the bulk of the gain was in farm workers; nonfarm workers increased by only 12,000 v. a 317,000 gain in October...