Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one problem in attempts to cut the budget: no member of Congress wants to cut where his constituents are apt to bleed. There is a much more serious problem. To make any major cut in the budget, the Congress would have to slash hard at defense, mutual security, farm programs or welfare. And in the halls of Congress, that is like being against motherhood...
...plant in Smyrna, Del. (pop. 2,346), Farm Fertilizer Manufacturer Warner W. Price, Jr. decided to speak his piece to the Interstate Commerce Commission about the proposed 22% boost in railroad freight rates. Price got off a letter to the ICC opposing the increase, but he soon found that to get the ICC's full attention he would have to spread out letters like a farmer covering the north 40 with Price products. The ICC wanted him to send exactly 62 copies of his letter -24 for the ICC Secretary, 25 for the Washington lawyer representing the railroads interested...
...booming city of 70,000, with modern architecture, an up-to-date airport (with cotton planted between the runways) and a home-grown crop of millionaires. The small farmer-owners, grown suddenly prosperous, make good customers for the show windows filled with gleaming new appliances and U.S.-made farm machines. Los Mochis, the sugar-mill center of the Fuerte valley, is just beginning to awaken. A new hotel is going up, and the streets are due for a coat of asphalt as soon as sewer lines are laid...
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...about 1957's business prospects. Some predictions: ¶ Borg-Warner Chairman Roy Ingersoll, who is spending $26 million for expansion this year: "We have good reason to anticipate improvement in 1957 in many of the industries which Borg-Warner serves. Sales are on the upcurve in automotive and farm-equipment parts, chemicals, aviation components and oilfield tools." ¶General Shoe Corp. Chairman W. Maxey Jarman: "People are buying freely. Employment is good. Retail business will definitely be up this year. I can see no signs of a recession or depression." ¶ Walgreen Co. President Charles R. Walgreen Jr.: "There...