Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Hill Wife, a romance in New England farm country, with Melvyn Douglas, Geraldine Page, Albert Salmi...
...Moores imported a great Scottish stallion, Ophelius, as a stud. Pippin would have nothing to do with the old horse. (Later breeding with an American stud produced one foal, but it was never shown.) So Pippin lived out her years on the wooded acres of Seaton Hackney Farm-alert, lovely, always a pleasure to watch working in harness. Last week, at 36 (the equivalent of more than 100 years in a human), she developed a serious case of colic. Reluctantly, the Moores made the final decision to put her down...
...thing about price supports and other subsidies, says Fleming, is that they cost so much to help so few people, "Only 7.3% of the population is dependent on farming for a living. Only a few crops get price supports or other farm subsidies. All the people pay the bill as consumers and taxpayers...
...world's largest private cotton dealer, suggested another place where Congress might apply its shears: the huge $5 billion farm-subsidy program. Says Fleming, noting that federal farm programs this year may total 42% of net farm income: "I believe a time has come when thoughtful cotton growers will come to the conclusion that a business which depends on Government support, obtained through logrolling, is a dangerous business...
Along with the physical overhaul, Chairman Barr is also gradually changing the company's basic character. Eventually, he hopes to shut down many of Ward's unprofitable rural locations, build heavily in the booming suburbs. Says Barr: "The farm population is in a major decline. Our new, bigger stores will go primarily into shopping centers in the suburbs-where the great migration has gone." And he adds: "We aim to get back in the picture with our competitors...