Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the dizzying switch from surplus to massive deficit had nothing to do with either cold war or recession ; it was the further bloating of already swollen farm programs. As of January, the Agriculture Department was planning to spend a whacking $5 billion for the fiscal year, largely in efforts to cope with surpluses that are encouraged by high price supports (TIME, Aug. 19). But abundant spring rainfall brought lush crop prospects, notably in the long-parched Great Plains, and the department's outgo estimate mushroomed to $6 billion-more than twice the combined outlays of the State...
...Nebraska Farm Boy. These basic facts of genetics were becoming known about the time Geneticist George Beadle was born in 1903. His father ran a small, progressive farm near Wahoo, Neb. (1900 pop. 900). His mother died when he was four, leaving him, his brother and sister to be mothered, after a fashion, by a succession of hired housekeepers. He remembers farm life in general with pleasure, but he still dislikes cream because he had to skim it off endless milk pans...
...listened to her attempts to convert him to an unusual religious sect whose name he does not remember. He never hit the sawdust trail, but when Miss McDonald's religious appeals failed, she started persuading him to go to college. His father expected him to take over the farm, but Bess McDonald headed him for the University of Nebraska's College of Agriculture at Lincoln. A small inheritance helped, and father Beadle made no objection...
...which European scientists and students made serious pilgrimages. Genetic knowledge dredged out of fruit flies had an enormous effect on plant and animal breeding. Geneticists believe that a great bronze statue of a Drosophila. suitably mutated, should be erected in some such place as Iowa, where farm production has been greatly expanded by genetically sophisticated corn...
Lawbones. In Brawley, Calif., after helping Mexican field hands prepare legal action against a farm labor camp for practice of medicine without a license, Benjamin Yellen, M.D., was served with a warrant for practicing law without a license...