Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics: Accents the "progressive" in his party's official name, Progressive Conservative. Backs flexible farm supports, social security and health measures, more federal aid to penniless Atlantic provinces. Shunning a doctrinaire stand, he goes along with Can ada's pattern of government competition with private enterprise in rails, airlines, hotels, TV. He is temperately critical of the U.S. cultural, economic and political "invasion" of Canada, favors "Canada first," closer ties to Britain. When Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, killed himself after a U.S. Senate subcommittee charged him with Communist sympathies in the '30s, Diefenbaker sided with...
...another great Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. Like Van Gogh, Mondrian had a strict Calvinist father, early sought to establish spiritual contact with Holland's rough peasants, underwent a period of religious fervor that nearly swept him into the ministry. Mondrian, too, was a painter of the Dutch farm countryside, who gradually increased the intensity of his colors until they glowed with slashes of crimson, cobalt blues and rich mauves...
Faced with declining farm sales, farm-equipment manufacturers have moved deeper into road building. International Harvester, No. 1 U.S. farm implementer, last year boosted its construction-equipment sales to 16.6% of total sales v. 12.7% in 1955, is now second in the basic earthmover line. Other companies are specializing to meet the requirements of the federal program. Milwaukee's Harnischfeger Corp. found that 25,000 bridges will be needed in the federal highway network (bridge builders will get 25%-30% of the highway cost). It has developed an extra-high-capacity mobile crane to raise precast sections...
When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...
...incomes-and the taxes paid on them-have rapidly increased, so have the ways in which embattled taxpayers hold down the Government's take. Every businessman knows about such old standbys as the farm that runs at a tax-deductible loss, the "business" expense for a yacht, a car, a trip, even a country-club membership. But comparatively few are aware of another way of saving by the wise use of trusts and foundations, which can be set up for either charity or personal projects, and often reward the taxpayer with huge savings. Until recently only taxpayers...