Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference thereupon whooped through a farm resolution as politically potent as it was economically shameless. Its principal point: larger federal stockpiles of farm commodities (present Government-held surpluses: $7.3 billion) should be permitted by law and "such carryover [should] be removed from consideration when establishing prices in the marketplace." Its economic meaning: the farmer should get top subsidies even while commanding top market prices. Its political meaning: whatever the cost to the taxpayer, Midwestern Democrats plan to leave no political row unplowed in their work toward a bumper vote crop...
...Also eying the U.S. farmer last week: the Census Bureau, which reported a farm population drop of 1,861,000 in a year. Part of this "substantial" loss represented farmers voluntarily leaving the land, part was caused by cities pushing out their boundaries to include farm land. New farm population total...
...Days After. Europe's most successful realist has risen in classically enterprising fashion from hamble origins. Born Feb. 4, 1897 in the town of Fürth near Nürnberg in Franconia, he was the son of a peasant boy who left his farm to open a dry goods store in town. Badly wounded by a shell at Ypres, Corporal Ludwig Erhard returned home too weak to work in the store. He stayed on at Nürnberg's Commercial College, found his vocation in economics, went on to take his doctor's degree at Frankfurt...
Upon arriving at "Goat Island," Angelo finds his friend's wife, younger sister, and only child, a blossoming girl of about fifteen. The sister, Pia, played by Magali Noel, is bored by farm life and wants excitement. Immediately upon Angelo's arrival she sets her sights on him and goes efficiently about the task of seducing him. Being an obliging sort, Angelo is quick to relieve Pia's boredom, and only five minutes after his arrival he is embracing her. She resists, playfully...
...Service. In Norwalk, Ohio, a jury awarded $16,666 damages to Railroad Brakeman Ellis Dotson, 44, after his chagrined wife complained that a railroad accident impaired his ability to work on their farm, caused an impediment in his speech, and "that's not so bad, he can't kiss the way he used...