Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavyweight prizefighter managed by Hoffa's pal Owen Brennan drew $75 a week for two years as a Teamster welfare-fund claims investigator but did no investigating at all, instead he did odd jobs on Brennan's horse farm. The prizefighter's straightforward testimony about his Teamster days (now ended) flatly contradicted what Hoffa told the committee a year ago, and Chairman McClellan said he would ask the Justice Department to investigate the conflict...
...good faculty (42% are Ph.D.s) and physical plant, but has only 145 students. President Francis J. Donohue thinks that the college needs an enrollment twice as large to operate economically. But although the area needs a college-the next (Fort Hays Kansas State College) is 110 miles away -the farm lands around St. Mary's suffered impoverishing droughts in recent years. Students who should be attending do not have the money, and the young college run by the Sisters of St. Joseph has little cash to spare for a student-assistance program...
...business improvement, unemployment was still high. The Government last week reported that, while employment rose to 65,179,000 in July, the drop in unemployment was smaller than usual. Because large numbers of new workers are entering the working force (55,000 in July alone) and heavy rains curtailed farm and construction activities in many parts of the country, the jobless total of 5,294,000 was up from June to 7.3% of the working force, v. 7.5% in the April recession peak. Most economists fear that the total will remain high for months. Just as production drops off faster...
...benefits, social security, retirement programs, and aid to the needy. Even more important, the U.S. economy has grown so huge and so diversified that a slump in one section, as in autos, can be largely counteracted by a rise in another, such as the $3.1 billion rise in farm income during the first half of this year...
...rolling hills west of Montana's Big Horn River, 51 huge combines sliced through the golden wheat fields like avenging tanks last week as they raced to set a one-day world record for wheat harvesting. Watching the spectacle from a vantage point overlooking his 65,000-acre farm stood white-thatched Thomas Donald Campbell, 76, the world's biggest wheat farmer, and two astonished guests. The guests: Dmitry Omelyanenko, 48, Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and Mikhail Krylov, 28, an agricultural economist, both members of an eleven-man Russian agricultural mission invited...