Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Note physiognomical resemblance of Boss Beck as shown in your cover and Napoleon in the cinema version of Orwell's Animal Farm...
When a Russian says someone has "passed him a pig" he means that he has been done a dirty trick. Last week Nikita Khrushchev, who farrows folksy epigrams wherever his pudgy frame goes, told a gathering of farm bosses and workers that if only they would concentrate on producing more pigs, say two per citizen, the expression "passing a pig" would mean doing a good deed, instead of a bad one. In the next breath Khrushchev passed Soviet citizenry its biggest pig in many a year: he declared a moratorium on 260 billion rubles ($65billion) lent to the state...
...free piston engine that it has built to repower the Liberty Ship William Patterson. Smaller free piston engines are under development by General Motors for passenger cars and trucks. The Ford Motor Co. is deep in free pistons, and is trying them out for autos and farm tractors...
TRUCK-SALES BOOM for International Harvester is pushing biggest U.S. farm-equipment maker ahead of American Motors Corp. as nation's No. 4 automotive producer. New figures show International's 1956 truck sales jumped two-thirds to $573 million, ranking company just behind front-running truckers Chevrolet and Ford. Trucks now account for 46% of International's business v. 29% for farm equipment...
...British corruption of the 17th century Dutch word for farm (bouwerij), as the citizens of New Amsterdam called the estate of their director-general, Petrus Stuyvesant...