Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawn. Correspondents duly noted the executive mansion's, first helicopter landing.* But the practice descent marked something else as well. Air Pioneer Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to use a light plane (the twin-engined Aero-Commander 560) in short hops, e.g., to and from his Gettysburg farm. Now Ike is ready to employ the air age's newest child in civil-defense evacuation and in flights of convenience over Washington's heavy ground traffic, especially to and from the National Airport. The search for machine and man safe enough to ferry him took nearly four...
...Menderes said that he would increase by 33.5% the price the government pays farmers for wheat. Orthodox economists and U.S. advisers were horrified; almost everyone else concluded that the rise was a sign that Menderes intends to call for general elections this fall and is making sure of the farm vote...
Last April, seeking a likely spot to resow the seeds of class warfare after their failures in industry, Italy's Communists turned their attention to the Po Valley farm workers. "Why should you leave the land where you were born?" they asked. "Stay and fight for your heritage...
...argument, the Red activists tossed flaming Molotov cocktails into the farmers' haystacks, poisoned their cattle's water with creosote. By the end of April three-fourths of the farm hands in the district were refusing to work, either in sympathy with the Communist cause or in fear of Communist bullyboys. Red big shots poured into the district to pour oratorical fuel on the flames. Czechoslovakia's Prague radio chimed in across the air waves urging the Po strikers...
Like the man who first honeymooned at Niagara Falls, Murphy was a daring young American who was only trying to make good. He was a farm boy newly arrived in San Francisco when the idea dawned on him; he had previously been a stagecoach driver, undertaker, deputy sheriff. Bedding manufacturers snapped at his scheme, and by 1910 were producing 250,000 Murphy beds a year. But the bed became far more than just a commercial success when the budding movie colony saw in it a hilarious prop for slapstick comedy. By the mid-1920s, Murphy and his disappearing...