Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Auto Workers Organizer John Watkins, for eleven years (1942-53) an official of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, knew just what he would and would not tell the House Un-American Activities Committee when he appeared before it on April 29, 1954. A witness of straightforward manner, he testified that he had never been a card-carrying Communist. But he admitted that from 1942 to 1947 he had cooperated with Communists "to such a degree that some persons may honestly believe that I was a member of the party." He agreed to answer all questions about his own participation...
...Extended for one year, by a lopsided vote of 344 to 7, the Administration's authority to sell farm surpluses to friendly foreign countries on easy terms...
...farm experts saw it, the referendum sadly underscored the fact that farmers, long hit by drought and the cost-price squeeze, have become too enmeshed in the U.S. subsidy program ever to vote their own way into the uncertainties of a free market. The 1958 quotas will do little to solve wheatmen's problems. Despite the acreage limitation program and the soil-banking of more than 12 million acres (in reality often poor land) at a cost of $231 million, the 1957 crop promises to be only a fraction smaller than last year, further adding to the nation...
...insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural Gas Co., another distributor, made $32.2 million in paper profits, and again the big chunk went to insiders. By contrast, the Alberta government thoroughly policed the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co., and waitresses and farm hands all got a share of profits that now total $45.9 million...
...Okla. Lindy got $50,000 to sign in 1955, when he was just 19, had only a mediocre year in 1956 (7-6). When Von struck out 243 batters this spring in his senior year in high school, big-league scouts swarmed around the McDaniel cotton farm once again. But father Newell McDaniel had his mind made up. "Just like Lindy, the price is $50,000," he said. "There's no bidding. I want the two boys to play together." Hastily, Cardinal President Gussie (Budweiser) Busch dug up another $50,000 for another McDaniel...