Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Creek, so far back in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas that the first paved road to the outside world was not completed 'until 1949. when Orval Faubus was a state highway commissioner. He trapped skunk and muskrat to help his family scratch out a living from their hill farm, and trudged five miles a day to a one-room country school. Eager for book learning, he finally managed to graduate from Huntsville High School when he was 24, three years after he married plain, amiable Alta Haskins. In 1935 he enrolled at the now-defunct Commonwealth College, a Communist...
...with friends at the Army-Navy Country Club. No longer a tennis player, non-Smoker John** plays golf (his father bests him consistently), keeps a 15-ft. powerboat in Chesapeake Bay. Recently, John bought a small converted schoolhouse as a weekend refuge on the southwest edge of the Gettysburg farm, is paying his father for it in small, long-range monthly payments...
...stumbling about in search of a style they can call their own, Stallknecht has found hers. And she has done it without stumbling or even seeming to breathe hard. She studied illustration as a girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled to paint some more. Meanwhile, her son Frederick Wight (Stallknecht is her maiden name) had become a proficient painter and art critic (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956). Young Wight encouraged her to paint, yet was amazed when she embarked...
CURBS ON EXPORTS to Poland will be greatly eased. Commerce Department is lifting restrictions on a wide list of industrial and farm items, will even consider exporting such strategic goods as petroleum, magnesium, machine tools, electronic components, etc. Department hopes to accelerate U.S.-Polish trade, expects it to jump 130% to about $75 million this year...
Presenting its annual resumé, the Department of Agriculture last week had some startling figures that might put all the worryabout fluctuating farm prices and immediate income in clearer perspective. The U.S. farmer is a rich man. Between Jan. 1, 1956 and Jan. 1, 1957, total agricultural equities (all assets minus all liabilities) rose by $8 billion to an all-time high of $157.3 billion. In every single category, farmers increased their net worth. Livestock values rose almost 5%, machinery 3%, household goods more than 4%. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond holdings and other investments grew bigger, in some...