Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar objections before Ike began to use two-engined instead of four-engined planes for short hauls), the President has wanted to beat his traffic problem by using a helicopter to take him directly from the White House to the airport-and even as far as his Gettysburg farm. The White House last week announced that Ike had given the green light for helicopter test flights to and from the White House's south lawn in preparation for a regular service...
...million wage earners in automobile, aircraft, farm equipment and other industries, the index's latest rise will bring escalator-clause pay boosts averaging 10 an hour. But a lot of less lucky American workers, and millions of people living on fixed incomes, are finding that, with prices going up, their standard-of-living escalators are going down. And the short-range outlook. Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague glumly predicted last week, is that the index will continue to "creep up like this...
STOCK CONTROL of Britain's automaking Standard Motor Co. has been quietly bought for $4,900,000 by Canada's farm equipment giant, Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., which may turn Standard into Europe's biggest farm-machinery producer. Besides its Standard, Vanguard and Triumph cars, Standard is producing 100,000 Ferguson tractors annually under license deal. Massey holds 18½% of Standard stock, the biggest bloc...
...Southern prodigal son who returns home too late to recover the world he once spurned. Duncan Welsh had spent seven years as a newspaperman in Northern cities and lost an eye, a wife and all stomach for his job. He heads back to his father's Tennessee valley farm to root himself in the pieties of nature, kinsmen, and feudal loyalties from which he feels he was torn by anonymous city dwelling. But in the bustling regional ferment to which Duncan returns, his attitudes seem romantic, antisocial and outmoded. The powerful dramatic irony of The Innocent is that...
Raffish characters and an offbeat setting can sometimes save a novel. This is what happens in The Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first book about itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps...