Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other way than without pretense. With a natural sense of rough, monotonal dialogue and plodding, deadpan humor, he can do some amazing things. At one point Reuben is looking for work. He sees a want ad for a job as a farm hand, and goes to visit the old farmer at his place, who has told him over the phone that he had better know something about nails, because he's got some new ones that are "eight times harder...
Wooden's own pyramid of success is rooted back home in Indiana. Son of a Dutch-Irish tenant farmer, he was raised in Martinsville, a town whose chief distinction, as noted in Ripley's Believe It or Not, was that its 5,200 inhabitants built a basketball fieldhouse that seated 5,520. He began with a rag ball and the proverbial peach basket nailed to the hayloft. He was an honor student and a three-time All-America at Purdue, where he financed his way by waiting on tables and taping the ankles of football players...
...from people wanting money." His stock in Tropicana Products, Inc. of Bradenton, Fla., rose $59 million, to $128 million. Rossi, who still speaks in the accents of the Sicily that he left 51 years ago, founded the company in 1946 after a varied career as cab driver, bricklayer, tomato farmer and restaurateur, and he owns 24% of Tropicana's shares. He was one of the first to discover the North's thirst for chilled orange juice shipped from Florida, and has kept the company growing by innovations that have cut the cost of packaging and shipping the juice...
Four Presidents-Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon-have asked Congress to reduce REAP appropriations. But as the only Agriculture Department program that distributes money (some $8 billion since 1936) in all 3,060 U.S. farm counties, REAP has vocal farmer-defenders in every state. Businessmen who sell to farmers also benefit-and speak up politically. Robert Koch, president of the National Limestone Institute, mutters darkly that if REAP is killed, "our land will get worn out and go the way of India and China." The pro-REAP coalition has managed to get new money voted for REAP every year...
...shallow Pedernales and gradually building up his cattle herds through shrewd trading at local livestock auctions. He would come home at ten in the evening, tired and dung-booted, to tell his guests about the price of beef and about egg production problems. "He's become a goddam farmer," an old friend complained. "I want to talk Democratic politics. He talks only hog prices...