Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House approved and sent to the Senate a $1.3 billion program containing the Administration's request for authority to barter U.S. farm surpluses to Iron Curtain nations in return for strategic materials. The bill also allows the Administration to complete the second half of a $95 million agreement that provides for loans to Poland and payment in Polish currency for U.S. farm surpluses...
...closed-circuit emergency communications system: enemy aircraft were striking south from Alaska and Canada; 100 U.S. cities were blasted in atomic attack. Adding a lighter note, Mamie and Ike's grandchildren arrived by car from Washington, and next morning all drove off to the President's Gettysburg farm for a weekend of golf and relaxation...
...voice of Nikita Khrushchev was clearly heard. The three party bigwigs had long opposed Khrushchev on six specific counts: They had 1) "sought to frustrate so vastly important a measure as the reorganization of industrial management"; 2) "failed to recognize the necessity for increased material incentives for the collective-farm peasantry"; 3) stubbornly resisted "the measures which the . . . party was carrying out to do away with the consequences of the personality cult"; 4) "offered constant opposition . . . to the struggle against the revisionists of Marxism-Leninism" inside and outside the country; 5) they had "attempted to oppose the Leninist policy...
...proved a flop. He spent $25 million erecting a gigantic "International Fair for Peace and Progress," opened the doors for business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
...University of Wisconsin's Edwin E. Witte, 70, onetime Wisconsin farm boy who became a leader of the institutional school of economics that concerns itself not with the "timeless, placeless laws of economics" but with practical solutions to everyday problems. Though round-faced Economist Witte regarded himself as "an old-fashioned teacher" who was never really happy away from the campus on which he had studied and taught so long, he helped draft many a progressive law for his state, wrote the Federal Social Security Act of 1934-35, campaigned constantly against colleagues who were so bent on appearing...