Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the end of winter, Washington seemed to be in the grip of the word "inevitable." A meeting at the summit was inevitable; a quick tax cut to brake the recession was inevitable; some kind of politically popular, high-subsidy farm program was inevitable; a wishy-washy Pentagon reorganization plan was inevitable. Last week the President, back in command of the Administration in all its divisions, proved in a busy week that there is nothing inevitable about anything when leadership provides its own direction. Items...
Thus, installed in office with the most punctilious attention to the "socialist legality'' he has made such a point of. Khrushchev went on to make a 2½-hour speech for his big reform of 1958-a program of boosting farm output (or "catching up with the U.S.." as he puts it) by taking tractors and other farm machinery from state-run "machine pools" and turning them over to the collective farms...
...butterfly (0:54.6), boosted the Wolverines to 72 points and the championship. ¶ Winter-book bettors got some new form to fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...
...wage boost of 3.9%, which would average 9? an hour, reflecting the 3.9% average yearly increase in productivity of U.S. manufacturing and farm workers between 1947 and 1956 (although last year's productivity went up only 1.6%). Cost to G.M.: $63 million. ¶ Better unemployment benefits totaling, together with state benefits, 80% of take-home pay for a full 52 weeks. Auto-workers now get 65% for the first four weeks and 60% thereafter for a maximum of 26 weeks...
...book. He studied the science of the tides, waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles. He came to know the tales of the great seaborne adventurers, from Bjarni Herjulfson. reputed to be the first Viking to see America, to Boston Harry Adams, the ugly Ohio farm boy who became a legend among the polyglot pearlers of Thursday Island...