Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peasant's son who in less than five years had emerged from relative obscurity to become the most amazing dictator the world had ever seen. This was no introverted intellectual like Lenin, no hysterical neurotic like Hitler, no brooding Byzantine murderer like Stalin. This was a cocky, ebullient farm boy-a man who could work all day, drink all night and, as he demonstrated again and again last week, jauntily settle historic issues with a quip or a proverb...
...G.O.P. high command is painfully aware that Benson has cost them farm state votes and will cost more in the congressional elections next year. But if the ranks of Benson's enemies are large and growing larger, he has, in his determination to stay on the job, one important friend: Dwight Eisenhower, who has sternly resisted tactful suggestions that he should listen to the political winds...
...Deere & Co., a U.S. farm-machine manufacturer, announced plans to build a $5,000,000 tractor factory in Argentina, the biggest cash and equipment investment in Argentina since Perón's downfall...
...present eminence as Ford's top stylist. George Walker can look back on a long and circuitous road to success. He was born on May 22, 1896 in a South Side Chicago apartment hotel, the son of an Erie Railroad conductor named William Stuart Walker and a Quaker farm girl from Shattuck, Okla.. who was one-quarter Cherokee Indian. Constantly migrating, first to Jersey City, then to Barberton, Ohio, finally on to Cleveland, Walker got an erratic schooling. His marks were so low that one teacher was sure he would wind up nothing more than a "hockey-playing...
...future, the U.S. car will probably not grow any longer, nor will it get much lower. But it will be wider and roomier, with better visibility and more safety features. It will also undoubtedly become more functional. The station wagon first started out as a farm carryall, then became a tricked-up luxury for the country-club set. But today, by wedding the sedan to the wagon, Detroit's stylists have given it a new function; they have turned out a handsome auto that can be used either to haul tomatoes to market or top hats to the opera...