Word: farmed
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Died. Walter Franklin George, 79, patriarchal "Senator's Senator," recent compelling voice for American bipartisan foreign policy. Democratic Senator from Georgia from 1922 to 1956, when President Eisenhower made him U.S. Ambassador to NATO; of a heart ailment; in home-town Vienna, Ga. Born on a poor Georgia farm, George rose from a Georgia lawyer to associate justice on the State Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate, George began serving (1926) on the tax-writing Finance Committee, soon was recognized as the Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump...
...FARM EXPORTS jumped 35% to record $4.7 billion in fiscal 1957. Government-subsidized cotton exports hit 7,700,000 bales v. 2,200,000 bales in 1956; wheat shipments rose to 535 million bu. from 340 million bu. Agriculture Department expects foreign sales boom to level off in current fiscal year because of bumper cotton, wheat crops abroad, new import controls in some dollar-short countries...
...campaigning for billions in price supports, Washington politicos often give the impression that the subsidies benefit all of America's 5,400,000 farm families. Actually, only a minority gets them, since only five crops (wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco) are supported, and they are produced by the nation's most prosperous farmers. Left out almost completely are some 2,500,000 marginal farmers. These underfed and ill-housed families are a farm problem that few Congressmen talk about. Last week Congress grudgingly voted $2,500,000 for their benefit, a cut of $1,500,000 below...
Rural Development is one of the few farm programs that really work. Yet it gets a cold reception from politicians because it is prompted by an unpleasant fact that they prefer to ignore. The fact: too many farmers are trying to scratch out a living on farms that are too small to be profitable. From 1930 to 1954, the average U.S. farm jumped from 157 to 242 acres. But with the cost of mechanization, even that is not enough to support a single family in many areas. And in hundreds of scrubby farming counties, the cultivated area per farm averages...
...Welfare Departments, at President Eisenhower's orders, selected 54 counties and three multi-county areas in the Southeast, Southwest, New England, along the Ohio River valley and in the Great Lakes area as laboratories in which to test a new idea. The big idea: to encourage local farm leaders, businessmen, clergymen and others to take over and work out their own farm-improvement plans, tailored to their own needs, with technical and loan assistance supplied by their state and the Federal Government...