Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
...country "from disaster." He pointed to the help that Bolivia is getting in U.S. technical cooperation for health, education, agriculture and roads. Siles put U.S. dollar help at more than $23 million for the fiscal year-plus an emergency $2,000,000 for Bolivia's drought-parched farm areas. He praised the "evident spirit of international cooperation" demonstrated by the $25 million currency-stabilization loan granted last December by the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. International Cooperation Administration, pointing to the boliviano's climb (from 13,000 to the dollar...
...test counties, farmers got a choice. If they wanted to keep on farming, they were shown how to farm better, got help in buying more land and equipment. Others were helped in getting jobs in town or industry. Rural Development has also persuaded industries to locate plants in distressed rural areas, and has aided farmers in starting their own businesses...
...movie that could have been authored by an unlikely collaboration of Henry Miller, in his heyday, and the late Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey in his. What happens when a carefree, handsome studhorse of a man strolls into the lives of three sex-starved females who run an isolated goat farm in the French Alps? Going far beyond love, or even mere lust, Passionate Summer presents something of a heterosexual explosion...
...Agatha (Madeleine Robinson), the young widow of Angelo's best friend in a prisoner of war camp; her burgeoning teenage daughter Sylvia (Dany Carrel); her sulky sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have a man?" Perceiving that this will doubtless blossom into an intimate family affair, he also assures them: "How could I love one of you more than another?" His first objective is the widow Agatha...