Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the Red Chinese themselves, 1958 was a bumper year down on the communal farm: 375 million tons of grain produced, more than double the 1957 output. The farmers of Yunnan province were reported floundering in grain. With storehouses bulging, tubs of wheat had to be crammed inside peasants' homes...
...Farm-and-convert evangelism is the idea of Minnesota Lutheran Maurice Sand, 54, who first set up a self-sustaining mission in Medellin, Colombia. Returning to the U.S.. he started organizing an interdenominational mission of "Colaborers." He heard about jungled Parana State, visited it, decided it was a good site for a beginning. "I thought we could set up a little community of, say, ten American families with tractors and trucks to support the mission with coffee and crops." he said. Some 200 U.S. families heartily agreed, bought tracts at $30 an acre for uncleared land in Paran...
...grouse's cry and a compositional style to match, wrote and recorded (for ABC-Paramount) an amatory yawp of pain entitled So It's Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record with her own song called Lollipop. Later, she moved Columbia's Mitch Miller to frenzies of promotional enthusiasm with two more of her darkling juvenile fancies-Headlights and Stop Laughing at Me ("I will always have that memor...
Layers of Fat. Ralph Cordiner has always made good use of his time. He was born in 1900 on his father's 1,280-acre wheat farm near Walla Walla, Wash., just eight years after a genial Quaker named Charles A. Coffin merged two electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away...
...future (friends are convinced he has the date and hour marked on his calendar right now). Four years ago he bought a cattle ranch on Florida's west coast to prepare for his retirement. There, on 1,820 acres, he has set up "decentralization on the farm," intends to build a "Cordiner Motel" some distance away for his visiting daughters and their families, under his longtime policy of "decentralization in the home...