Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attitude clearer than in Congress, where all House members and 21 Republican Senators are up for re-election and intend to make records they can run on. To Midwestern Congressmen Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is anathema, and they will fight his election-year proposal to cut farm subsidies (TIME. Jan. 27); even so loyal an Administration supporter as Vermont's venerable George Aiken has publicly turned on Benson and his works. More worried about such a simple political issue as rising unemployment than anything else, many an Atlantic Seaboard legislator will fight Ike's program...
Should the U.S. scrap its farm support program and "get clear out of farming"? In December, Farm Journal (circ.3,400,000) put the question to its readers, this week reported an amazing finding: half the farmers say yes. The tally for the first 4,000 farmers responding...
...East the vote was 68% for no Government help. In the South, once a stronghold for farm subsidizers, the vote was 53%, and on the West Coast it was 58%. Even in the Central states, 43% of the farmers voting preferred no Government help-probably not enough to influence G.O.P. Corn Belt Congressmen, who are still determined to plow under Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson for advocating reduced price supports...
...Best Bike. Until he became Premier in 1950, Adnan Menderes (rhymes roughly with trend-in-dress) had never administered anything but the family farm near the southwestern Turkish town of Aydin, where he was born in 1899-he does not remember the month or day. He was orphaned soon after birth, thereby fell heir to 30,000 acres of cotton and wheat land watered by the river known to the Turks as the Menderes and to the ancient Greeks as the Meander. (It was affection for his birthplace that led the dynamic Adnan to choose so undescriptive a surname when...
...Kutis the championship soccer team alone is worth the price, even though none of his Undertakers undertake. Best of the lot is Center Forward Bob Rooney, 27, a beat-pounding St. Louis cop. who was a crack high school football player and for five seasons a baseball farm hand for the Cardinals. Soccer, says Rooney, gives him the biggest boot: "It's the speed and the pretty pass work and the extra little amount of roughness. I'm talking about really topnotch teams, though. Most people in this country see sandlot games that just look like...