Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's mood last week, as reported by TIME correspondents in 33 cities. Sputnik, the Middle East and other events had, as a Chicago lawyer remarked, "punctured the psychological Maginot line." Said Jay Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.: "We've been like a farm boy gawking along the midway of a county fair. Now we've got to get back to work pitching hay." Florida's Congressman Dante Fascell reported attending a club meeting in Miami: "After it was over, a bunch of the boys gathered around me and spent a couple...
Principal reason is that Benson has a talent for making enemies and a genius for keeping them. Even though he is dispensing farm subsidies that total an astronomical $3.75 billion, Benson is disliked by most farmers because he preaches that subsidies are wrong. (Only 10% of those questioned in a recent farm poll rated Benson as doing an "excellent" job.) Even though he preaches that subsidies are wrong, city people dislike him because the subsidies grow larger, and he has not yet put across a workable program for cutting them down...
...that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions on a Connecticut farm before the first abstract canvas was done by Wassily Kandinsky in Europe...
Died. Erie Palmer Halliburton, 65, cranky, crusty farm-boy-to-riches oil tycoon, inventor of new methods of oil-well cementing (his "jet mixer" paved the way for mass production of well casings); after a three-year lung illness; in Los Angeles. Once so broke his wife had to pawn her wedding ring, Halliburton got his break in 1919 when he controlled a wild oil well for the late Oklahoma Wildcatter "Wild Bill" Skelly. formed his own company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer...
...Harvard skydiving team took first place at the country's second intercollegiate parachute jumping competition, held on Saturday atop the windswept crest of The Good Hill Farm in Woodbury, Conn...