Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home from the Capitol. It was early evening when.Chuck's car got stuck in the mud on a road leading to Meyer's farm. Up drove a second Ford; Bennet High School Junior Class President Robert Jensen, 17, was out on an early school-night date with Classmate Carol King, 16. They stopped to help. Starkweather shot both through the head with his .22 rifle, pushed their blue-jeaned bodies into an abandoned storm cellar near by. He drove up to Meyer's house, killed him with one .410-gauge shotgun blast, stuffed the body...
...midst of this turmoil, young Adnan Menderes confined his energies to the management of his estate. He was often seen riding across his fields at midnight for a last check. "He learned on the farm," says a friend, "that the work went best when he tended to it personally from beginning to end, and he got in the habit. Today he's still like a farmer watching his crops." He sold or gave the bulk of his properties to families that lived on them, then converted the 3,000 acres he still had into one of Turkey...
...Breezing home by 4½ lengths, Travis M. Kerr's bay colt Round Table easily won the $156,990 Santa Anita Maturity. At Florida's Hialeah, 1957 Kentucky Derby Winner Iron Liege lugged 124 Ibs., and, even with Hotshot Willie Hartack up, finished second to Happy Hill Farm's Kingmaker, carrying 116 Ibs., in the $30,-650 Royal Palm Handicap...
THIS is the beginning of a revolution in swine raising," said Kansas City, Mo. Packer Arthur B. Maurer last week. The revolution: a new way of raising hogs called contract farming. Contract farming, though new to the pork industry, is not new to U.S. agriculture; it was started in the canning industry years ago. But its rapid spread in recent years to other sections of the farm economy has caused some enthusiasts to feel that it may go a long way toward solving the farm problem, since its aim is to increase the income of farmers by cutting their costs...
Fertilizers for Ivan? Neuburger first got the idea for a trade fair in Moscow when he attended Moscow's Agricultural Exhibition in 1954, noted how thousands of Russians flocked in to view dull farm machinery and farm produce. When he approached the U.S. Government with the idea for a U.S. trade fair, it raised no objections but pooh-poohed the notion that the Russians would ever permit such a fair. Neuburger got Manhattan Lawyer Marshall MacDuffie (who, as chief of the UNRRA mission to the Ukraine after World War II, had met Khrushchev) to talk to top Russian brass...