Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimously authorizing an additional $600 million speedup in road building this year. The Administration had called for a more modest increase that would not begin until next year. ¶ Eleven Republicans joined 39 Democrats as the Senate, by a 50-10-43 vote, adopted a resolution to freeze farm price supports and acreage allotments at not less than the 1957 levels. The vote was a defeat for the Administration and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wanted to cut farm giveaways. ¶ But when Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas tried to tack a $5 billion tax cut onto...
UNCLE SAM is sick. He has a bad case of "depressionitis." He has a pain in his economy and he has jobless fever and chills. The dangerous germ that has brought Uncle Sam to bed is the neglect of the family farm...
...bauble," Nixon publicly proclaimed the Russian satellite a serious, important challenge to U.S. technology. He works hard with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to bolster the morale of Republican organizations across the country, privately wishes that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson would resign to help the party in the farm states. Again, it was his awareness of the Administration's political shortcomings that last week moved Nixon out front on the tax issue...
...Georgians expect Bill Hartsfield to have better success than earlier pleaders. But Georgians do believe that the county-unit system will eventually be defeated. The state's population is flowing from farm to city; growing cities-Macon, Augusta, Savannah, etc.-are beginning to suffer what Atlanta has suffered for 60 years at the hands of county legislators. When the cities agitate together, the wool-hats' reign may be doomed at last...
...Colorado farm town of Longmont (pop. 14,500), as in most such places in the U.S. farm belts, Saturday night used to be the liveliest night of the week, as farm families drove into town for the week's big ritual: shopping and gossiping...