Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOUTH AFRICA Off to the Farm...
Carlson produced affidavits indicating that native workers are often brutally beaten by farm superintendents and that most of them live in hideous squalor. They get sacks to wear in the fields and are fed cold porridge, occasionally with scraps of meat. At night workers are herded into rude shacks to sleep on filthy gunny sacks spread on cement floors. In some cases workers who die on the job are buried, without reports being made either to a doctor or police. "Africans sent to the farms firmly believe they have been 'sold' to farmers," Carlson charged. "Police and labor...
Woman Obsessed (20th Century-Fox). "You'll never touch me again!" cries the red-haired Saskatchewan farm wife (Susan Hayward) at her rednecked husband (Stephen Boyd), who has just whopped her one in the face. She slams the bedroom door and locks it. Bellowing like a mad bull, he busts the door down and-blackout. Several scenes later, Susan announces bitterly that she is pregnant. As the four-column ads explain it: "She hated the child whose life stirred within her because it was part of him whom she loathed and despised." She prays that she will lose...
...portrait of Dorian Gray, Douglas privately fights a hopeless battle against his reputation as a way-out zany, claims he is just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having surrounded his former Hollywood home with a steel Cyclone fence and forbidding signs saying "Northridge Lion Farm," but he denies shooting at low-flying aircraft. He also admits the story about how he loaded up his swimming pool with lumber, but only, he explains with Douglassy logic, to help the rabbits and gophers that might fall...
Government farm-support programs have also hatched new troubles. When controls on acreage cut the incomes of cotton and tobacco farmers, they went into the egg business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls...