Word: farmed
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Speaking of What? An unreconstructed individualist, Still was born in Grandin, N. Dak. in 1904, grew up on a farm, got an M.A. from the State College of Washington, where he taught art for eight years. As a teacher in the California School of Fine Arts (1946-50), he was responsible, along with Mark Rothko, for developing a generation of painters now making their marks in Manhattan, Paris, Rome. Of his own development, he says: "Each man has to find his own way. Painting forces ideas. A man has to struggle to stand, to go beyond all the extraneous material...
Most trunk lines will ask for increases on all but about 30 of 256 commodities. Coal will probably get hit, and the Western roads want higher rates for their eastward shipments of farm goods, lumber and lumber products. Even the 25 Class I Southern roads, which have traditionally rebelled against stiff rate increases for fear of losing business to trucks, plan to join in the request, even though they may not seek boosts for pulpwood, tobacco, alcoholic drinks. Finally, all the rails are expected to petition for higher charges for loading and unloading export-import freight, and for permission...
...James) Russell Duncan, 40, vice president of Chicago's Consolidated Foundries & Mfg. Corp. since 1954, was elected president of Minneapolis-Moline, farm implement company founded in 1929, succeeding Henry S. Reddig, 50, who resigned. The move followed a shareholder revolt in which Raider J. Patrick Lannan (TIME, July 25, 1955) and two associates won places on Minneapolis-Moline's board of directors two months ago. Lannan's H. M. Byllesby & Co. bought into Minneapolis-Moline two years ago with Henry Reddig and his brother Edward when the company's prospects looked good and its stock...
Like other Cabinet members in the Eisenhower Administration, Benson was held solely responsible for his Department. It was always the "Benson farm policy," not the "Eisenhower farm policy" that was criticized. But Benson was not subject to his most intense criticism until the last few months. Before, despite all criticism, Eisenhower had remained steadfastly in support of Benson; it was only this year, when Eisenhower himself started to be attacked, that Benson felt the full brunt of farmer discontent...
Criticism of Benson has reached its peak in the last few months, and can only be expected to increase as the '58 elections draw nearer. Despite the coalition of cattlemen, businessmen, and the American Farm Bureau Federation being formed to save Benson, it is likely that Benson will choose to resign in February...