Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farm Revolution
Congratulations on your skillful report on Farm Businessman North [March 9] and others like him who are upsetting not only production records but outdated concepts of what the agricultural industry really is. While efficiency of livestock production has been boosted by refined management methods and breeding of animals with better production potential, constant beefing-up of nutritionally balanced feeds has probably contributed more than any other factor to present efficiency in food production...
...Japanese women the gains have been less spectacular, but in their limited horizons, more revolutionary and of greater significance. Even in the rural districts, where women still work 14 hours a day, and man is still treated as danna-sama (the master), there is change. Explains a countrywoman: "The farm wife is quite willing to work just as hard as before, but she wants to be treated like a human being." Girls are no longer sold to textile factories by their parents-now the factories try to lure them by "guaranteeing a husband before you are 30." In the richer...
From one of its steadiest suppliers, a British frozen-food company received a chilly ultimatum: either boost its price for peas (currently $126 a ton) or move all that pea-picking machinery off the Norfolk property. The hard-bargaining farm owner: Queen Elizabeth...
...bustling town of Poissy, 17 miles northwest of Paris, needed a high school and thought it had the perfect site. The town council expropriated 18 acres of farm land containing several orchards, a few small market-garden plots, and smack in the middle, a decrepit, uninhabited villa owned by the widow and son of a Paris insurance man named Pierre Savoye. Poissy's mayor proposed to indemnify the family and then tear the villa down. Last week M. le Maire wished he could forget the whole thing. The idea brought a hornet's nest of protests down...