Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandal: the reigning farm price-support program that costs the U.S. nearly $5 billion a year, while it makes worse the situation it pretends to cure, distorts the normal workings of agricultural economics, corrupts farmers, and shows in nearly every way that it is obsolete in the age of new farm technology (TIME...
Tourists or newsmen who wandered close to Beautycoon Elizabeth Arden's Arizona Maine Chance health-and-beauty farm last week were brusquely shooed away by grim-faced guards who sprang from behind cactus clumps. A total of 21 armed men-six Secret Service agents, six members of the Arizona highway patrol and nine Maricopa County sheriffs deputies-guarded the place around the clock, seven men to each eight-hour shift...
...farm's ordinary guests, who pay $400 to $600 a week, it is early to bed and early to rise. On the breakfast tray, along with grapefruit and coffee, the guest finds a schedule card listing, half-hour by half-hour, her activities for the day, e.g., calisthenics, scalp massage, "intracellular masque," daily manicure and pedicure, a reducing ordeal that consists of being coated with hot wax and left to stew. In between treatments, she is firmly encouraged to drink down plenty of vegetable juices, "potassium broth," and a secret-formula "diet...
Died. Edward Asbury O'Neal, 82, onetime (1931-47) president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, influential voice in the shaping of New Deal farm policies, key figure (with Henry A. Wallace) in the passage of the first Agriculture Adjustment Act and the subsequent Soil Conservation Act; in Florence, Ala. O'Neal watched with satisfaction his federation's membership grow from 276,000 to 1,275,000 during his tenure as president, once said of farm production: "We should figure out our future on the basis of human needs-of goods and service...
...hulking (260 Ibs.) six-footer told the desk sergeant in Crawfordsville, Ind. that while he was working on a nearby farm, some baling wire had stuck in his legs. He had had a tetanus shot, he added, but by now the pain was terrible: he could barely walk, needed medical attention-but could not pay for it. He was, he said, Leo Lamphere, 47, of Watertown, N.Y. The sympathetic sergeant called a doctor who saw what looked like clots in the veins on both 'Lamphere's legs, ordered him to Culver Union Hospital. There Lamphere began spitting blood...