Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking a firm stand for Administration policies (TIME, April 22). The House, including many a Republican outside the party's Old Guard, happily zeroed in on one of Eisenhower's favorite projects, the U.S. Information Agency, sliced its budget by half. The Senate crippled the Administration farm program (but rallied remarkably when Ike stood and fought for foreign...
...Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman and Ohio's governor; he was his party's presidential candidate in 1920, ran a good race in a bad season for Democrats...
Watching Aaron that night was a scout from the Milwaukee Braves who soon signed him up. Aaron went up through the Braves' farm system, in 1954 got his big chance when Outfielder Bobby Thomson broke his ankle in spring training. Last year, lashing out at any bad pitch that caught his fancy, Aaron won the league batting championship with a .328 average, led both major leagues with 200 hits...
Leasing 4,500 acres of farm land in Arizona's Maricopa County, Harris trekked his work crews, tractors, and cotton gin 125 dusty miles to the farm and planted it to cotton. This fall, when he harvests his crop, he will have to pay a penalty of 18½? per Ib. for growing cotton without an allotment. But even if the penalty amounts to $800,000 as it may, Farmer Harris will feel no pain. A fair-to-middling crop will likely yield him $1,200,000, plus his soil bank payments, or a profit of $600,000. Harris...
...growing penalty cotton that the Agriculture Department long ago gave up any attempt to count them. Rather than cutting cotton surpluses through the soil bank, Harris had made the cotton surplus considerably worse. The 9,000 to 13,500 bales of cotton that he will grow on his new farm will take away the market for an equivalent amount of other cotton grown in compliance with the rules. This other cotton will end up in Government warehouses, causing the taxpayers a further loss...