Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the snowdrifted steppes of Soviet Russia last week slogged hundreds of thousands of peasants to attend party-organized "discussion" meetings about Nikita Khrushchev's latest decision: to abolish the tractor stations. Speaking last month to farm officials in Minsk, the First Party Secretary announced that the Machine Tractor Stations had outlived their usefulness as originally constituted, and that henceforth the collectives may buy and operate their own machinery. "Where there are two masters on the land, there can be no good order," he thundered. "The tractor station sows no flax but is supplied with flax machines. It plants...
...finery that set off her lustrous black hair, the bride-to-be sat among the wedding guests blinking back her tears. She had already protested that she did not want to marry the wealthy but middle-aged landowner chosen by her father, that her true love was a penniless farm boy named Nguyen Van Sa. While the guests downed the food and wine, Co Ha watched and waited from the traditionally isolated bride's chair at the end of the table. When the men began to nod with drink, Co Ha knew her moment had come...
...With Jockey Willie Hartack beating out his usual rib-rattling tattoo (TIME, Feb. 10). Calumet Farm's Iron Liege sprinted home by half a length at Florida's Hialeah to win the $65,700 McLennan Handicap and Calumet stable's first major purse of the 1958 racing season...
...sooner was his father settled on the farm than Willie got another big break. One of the horses trained by Junie Corbin was found to be doped, and according to racing law, the trainer took the rap. Junie needed money badly, and the most valuable property he owned was Hartack's contract. Willie's services were sold to Mrs. Ada L. Rice...
When the time came for cotton planting last spring, Arizona Farmer Jack A. Harris saw a fine chance to teach the Government a lesson-and make himself a quick profit (TIME, July 22). A foe of all price supports, he put his 1,600-acre Pima County farm into the soil bank in return for a $209,701 Government check. Then he sidestepped the bank's purpose by sowing 4,500 acres of cotton in another part of the state. Even after paying an 18½? penalty a pound for growing cotton without an allotment (which amounted...