Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids? Rural electrification and telephones? Increased pay for all federal workers? School lunches? Veterans' pensions? Veterans' hospitals and other benefits? The FBI? Our courts? Immigration? Atomic energy? Farm-surplus programs? Those are the questions; it'll be interesting to see what answers this 85th Congress will give us after all their talk about economy...
After retirement, Hanford says he will probably teach for a few more years. He says he will also do some gardening at his farm near Ware, Mass., and will do some writing about his experience at Harvard...
...long-term loans through normal bank channels. "What we're looking for," says one Prudential executive, "is the nice little company making a nice little product in Bucyrus, Ohio." The Pru has found plenty of them. Among the loans: $200,000 to help reforest a Florida tree farm, $750,000 to a Nashville religious-book company, $54,000 to Kansas City's Papec Machine Co., makers of agricultural appliances, another $120,000 to six El Dorado (Ark.) doctors who convinced the Pru that their town needed a medical center...
...Parity is a formula for adjusting farm support prices according to the prices farmers have to pay for the things they buy (fertilizers, tractors, etc.). The aim is to give the farmer's dollar the same purchasing power it had in 1910-14. No other segment of the U.S. economy has the same Government guarantee. Parity prices are revised monthly by the Department of Agriculture...
...attention as the sober hard work of all his brothers combined. Four years ago, hoping to get away from it all, Winthrop forsook the cabarets of Manhattan for the hills of Arkansas. There, on a ridge 50 miles from Little Rock, he built a magnificent, $1,500,000 cattle farm called Winrock, from which he can gaze for 40 miles across the Arkansas River valley, heart of the razorback state. Today the Arkansas that Winthrop Rockefeller views from Winrock is undergoing a startling change -and he is responsible for much of it. "We thought he had come down here just...