Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commerce's Sinclair Weeks, 63, who wants to retire to his New Hampshire farm. One possible successor: Under Secretary for Transportation Louis Rothschild...
...quiet and unobtrusive was Justice Reed that it took his request for retirement last week, at the age of 72, to win him headlines and a measure of public recognition. A small-town Kentucky lawyer. Reed served Herbert Hoover as counsel for the Federal Farm Board (1929-32) and the RFC (1932-35). As Franklin Roosevelt's Solicitor General (1935-38), he studiously defended such New Deal staples as NRA (he lost the case) and the Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act (he won) before the Supreme Court. Once, in a rare dramatic moment, he collapsed from exhaustion...
...Supreme Soviet assembled, the state of the Soviet Union was newsworthy but not very happy. The U.S.S.R. annual economic report, while claiming an 11% increase in industrial output, listed some serious deficiencies: capital investment was down 6%, and coal, iron, cement, glass, some machine tools and much farm machinery fell short of set goals. More important, from the viewpoint of the elite, dwelling construction fell short of aims by 30 million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands...
...Warsaw government wishes to get trade credits here totaling about 100 million dollars at least. It wants these to finance the purchase of urgently needed cotton, modern farm machinery, new mining equipment, fats and oils, chemical fertilizer and grains for cattle food...
...similar plan in intent was discussed whereby the University would establish a sister institution to act as a sort of Harvard farm-club, and also to demonstrate the University's concern for the legion of war babies who are massing for an attack on colleges. Harvard in Houston, as the plan was called, never received the publicity of Mr. Cherington's, but public concern was equally apathetic...