Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to waging the cold war and preventing a hot one, the most gruesome task confronting the U.S. Government is coping with the farm-glut scandal. Swollen by the costs of buying and storing farm surpluses-largely created by obsolete federal price supports-Agriculture Department spending will mount this fiscal year to $6.9 billion, more than twice the combined outlays of the State, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor Departments...
...years older), "Chiby" (Squirt) Suzuki was a loner from the start-a kid who seemed to figure she was expected to take care of herself. She went to a two-room schoolhouse, rode horses bareback, learned to swim in irrigation canals on her father's 100-acre farm, and talked Spanish to the Mexican peach pickers. But it was not much fun. At least, looking back on her childhood, Chiby Suzuki insists: "I could hardly wait to grow up. I didn't like being a kid, because I always had certain feelings I couldn't explain...
Bean Cake. After the war the Suzukis spent a year on a Colorado sugar-beet farm, renting their own land to help make a stake. Then they went home to Cressy. For Pat, it was as bad as ever. "I was kind of a homely kid. I was never a school type-I wasn...
There are 500 producing wells-150 of them Turner's-producing 19,000 bbl. of oil a day. Green County oil leases, sold last spring for $1 a farm plus one-eighth of the oil, now are bringing $2,500 to $3,000 an acre, plus a quarter of the oil for the farmer...
...offering to give away leases, Turner stimulated others to drill. Last winter, off in the backwoods, two more wells came in. In April the Frank Beams farm on the main Louisville road, which Turner had leased and subleased, came in flowing thick black oil-and the boom was on. Farmer Ellis Hood, 45, who barely scratched out $2,400 a year from his 85 hilly acres, now rakes in $325 a day; ex-Marine Early Vaughn Dulworth, 36, who paid $200 for a part interest in the Beam lease, now gets back $2,000 a month (his mother...