Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West took the upheaval in its summer stride, as if the appeal of freedom and erosion of despotism were now so clearly established that they needed no self-conscious exploitation. The President did not cancel his Fourth of July weekend on the farm at Gettysburg; the Secretary of State did not return from his long weekend at Duck Island, his retreat on Lake Ontario. In Washington the experts' comments on Khrushchev's apparent dominance ranged from a cynical "You can't run anything with a committee" to sweeping predictions that the beginning of the end of Russian...
...today's scion of the Times, Norman Chandler is neither blusterous nor ruthless, casually fingers the Times lanyard with a friendly urbanity where his predecessors might well have shot the town to blazes. Under his father's no-nonsense hand, Norman plowed through boyhood farm chores, rode the range and punched cattle for a few happy years on the family's 300,000-acre El Tejon Ranch 75 miles north of Los Angeles, went to Stanford University (business administration). In 1922 he married Fellow Student Dorothy Buffum ('"Buffie"), dutifully settled down for a rough tour...
Finished at 117? To feed his large-scale family (Ziolkowski and his wife Ruth have six children, are expecting a seventh) and to help finance his dream, he bought cows and established a successful dairy farm, bought and successfully operated a sawmill. He and his wife milk the .cows (by machine), manage the sawmill, shepherd the tourists and keep digging at the mountain. At times they startle visitors by coming in from work in mountain-and-barn clothes and appearing for dinner a few minutes later in formal dress...
JAPAN'S FINANCIAL PINCH will be eased by $175 million loan from U.S. Export-Import Bank to be used to buy U.S. farm goods without draining low Japanese dollar supply. With the credit Japan will import U.S. cotton, wheat, barley and soybeans, for which it is No. 1 foreign customer...
Often paying himself less than his men, young Steelmaster Weir painfully rebuilt the plant, put up another on farm land along the Ohio River near Wheeling. There he laid out streets, schools, homes for a company town called Weirton, which grew into a city...