Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomasville vacationers seemed to care greatly. That was when newsmen began questioning Jim Hagerty about the announcement that the President would take a 3,000-mile detour from Thomasville to Phoenix in the Columbine III to drop Mamie Eisenhower off at Elizabeth Arden's Arizona Maine Chance health farm...
...sells abroad 9% of all the movable goods it produces, that U.S. exports in 1957 added up to $19.5 billion, a sum greater than the domestic sales of the entire U.S. automobile industry. Added Agriculture. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries can earn dollars to buy U.S. products...
Hotfooting it from Capitol Hill to the Agriculture Department on an astonishing political mission, Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd and Nebraska's Arthur L. Miller last week tracked down Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. They had an urgent message: G.O.P. farm state Congressmen had just convened in emergency caucus and decided that either Benson must quit his job or 20 to. 25 members of the caucus would be defeated this fall as part of the mounting farm protest against Benson's policies...
...protests, both from Minnesota and from Capitol Hill, were overruled by Ezra Taft Benson. After listening to Judd and Miller for 40 minutes, he announced that he was not only staying on, but would "continue to pursue a course which I believe is best for our farmers." Most farm state G.O.P. Congressmen still were angrily certain that this was the worst possible political course, decided once more to ask Dwight Eisenhower to fire Benson. But Minnesota's Walter Judd was impressed by what he had seen and heard, sober second-thought: "I myself think he's been right...
...statewide clamor stirred by his series, more than half the 300 readers who had bombarded the paper with letters last week plainly agreed with Rowan. Though rural papers split evenly over Rowan's "soul-searching" report, none challenged his facts. To one farm-belt editor who accused him of exaggerating his conclusions, Carl Rowan replied: "Sure, the truth hurts, and if I have spiked some tender toes-well, I'm not sorry. I viewed my job much like that of a doctor diagnosing an ailing patient. It would be a silly doctor who spent two hours telling...