Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...departments-State, Justice, Commerce, etc. The House score at week's end: cuts of nearly $1.5 billion and an ambition to cut $1.5 billion more. In one outlandish saber dance the House cut off all 1958 funds for the Administration's soil bank program, designed to ease farm gluts by paying farmers to take land out of production. Chances were good that the Senate, or even the House itself, would reverse this drastic action, but the 192-187 vote was a sign that in the ecstasy of economy-and the chance to take a poke at Ike with...
...knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. But for West Pointer Dwight Eisenhower, the Confederacy's high-water mark holds more than passing fascination. Ike first refought Gettysburg 40 years ago while stationed at nearby Camp Colt as a tank-corps captain. He has fought it since from his farm close by the field where the Confederates made their final desperate charge. Last week, carrying out a three-year promise, he took Old Comrade in Arms Montgomery out to fight it again...
...FARM BARTER PROGRAM, by which U.S. since 1949 has contracted to trade more than $850 million worth of agricultural surplus for strategic materials from abroad, is being suspended, may be cut out entirely. Government thinks barter deals have displaced dollar sales of farm goods instead of creating new foreign markets, stepped up competition for domestic mining industry instead of reducing...
...other stable, Iron Liege would have been top banana. But at Mrs. Gene Markey's fabulously successful Calumet Farm he was only a talented understudy,* the pacesetter for the compact Gen. Duke, ranked by the experts as the finest three-year-old in the land. At post time Iron Liege was held at better than 8 to 1 in the finest field to run in years. Even his jockey, brash Willie Hartack, doubted his chances. Bold Ruler, ridden by canny Eddie Arcaro, was a solid 6-to-5 favorite...
Bishop also devoted two columns to people who, though far from diminutive, could be classified as Little People's People: Pope Pius XII ("he has the bone hurting handshake of a farm boy") and the late Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger-who gave Biographer Bishop (The Mark Hellinger Story) early, well-heeded lessons in Hearstmanship. Sample Hellinger commandments to Bishop: "Use only short words"; "the way to write a sob story is to be callous"; "before writing, always read a few hundred words of your favorite author...