Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Rhyne was born on a cotton farm in rolling Mecklenburg County, a few miles from Charlotte, son of "the most wonderful mother and father any child ever had." In the rare moments of relaxation allowed him by his breakneck schedule, he contentedly remembers his three-mile walk along dirt roads to the school where Miss Dewell Marshall taught eleven grades in one room; he remembers falling asleep during the hour-long Presbyterian sermons of Preacher Greer and Preacher Walker; he remembers the fish fries on the Catawba River and the swimming hole at Uncle Henry Rhyne...
...condemnation, O'Malley got up $5,000,000 as his share of the venture. He sold Ebbets Field to a real-estate operator named Marvin Kratter for $3,000,000, and signed a lease for the Dodgers to play there for three more years. He sold his Montreal farm club's park for $1,000,000, disposed of his Fort Worth park for another...
Last year Schleppey tried to retire to his 150-acre farm, but the composing-room wars in Massachusetts brought him back on the job. This summer Schleppey will have a cataract removed from his left eye, afterwards wants to do nothing but paint pictures and write a book on modern art. But for the time being, Strikebreaker Schleppey is still up for hire. Says he: "I'll never let these publishers down as long as I'm active...
Smith: True. And the depression-or recession-is a good excuse for a lot of political-economic folly-farm subsidies, xenophobic trade measures and things like that. What we really need, to use a businessman's trite expression, is a truly sound economy-growth and expansion, yes, but tempered with soundness. And we need to have it sound at every level-at the level of Government, at the level of the corporation, and at the level of the individual family budget...
Died. William Kerr Scott, 61, Democratic Senator from North Carolina, onetime (1949-53) governor of North Carolina and (1937-48) state commissioner of agriculture; of a heart attack; in Burlington, N.C. The tobacco-chewing "Squire of Haw River" (where he ran a 200-head dairy farm) drew his political strength from the rural vote, solidified his farm popularity during his term as governor by pushing through a bond issue that financed the paving of 14,810 miles of rural roads, chivied power companies until they strung 21,000 miles of new electric lines. Liberal Scott thought North Carolina was "shortchanging...