Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gordon, whose Chi cago district is heavily Polish, President Eisenhower revealed last week that the U.S. not only is arranging to sell Communist Poland farm surplus commodities (TIME, Jan. 14) but also will allow the Poles to purchase on credit. Wrote Ike to Gordon: the transactions "would ease economic difficulties of the Polish people," also "clearly reveal that the door remains open to a closer relationship" with the U.S. and other free nations...
...less prosperous but vote-conscious U.S. farmers that they and the economy will be better off in the long run without large agricultural subsidies. But if Benson has stuck to principle, he has also learned to bend with the political winds. He fought for passage of the 1954 farm law that substituted semiflexible price supports for the Democrats' rigid supports, but agreed to limit the range of flexibility so that actual supports did not drop much. He once considered the soil bank a Democratic gimcrack, now embraces it as a painless way to cut surpluses...
...disciple, if it is to be practiced. The real future of Zen in the U.S. depends on English-speaking Roshis-masters who have attained enlightenment. One of the most likely candidates is blond, ruddy Walter Nowick, 30, a World War II veteran, raised on a Long Island potato farm, who is now studying at Kyoto's Sokokuji Temple. Nowick rises each morning at four to meditate on a koan such...
...doubt, his courage must be admired. It is interesting to note that he did no research for his little epic, and bases his facts entirely on hearsay. Mr. Royce does not drink. Not much, that is. Well, not a great deal. Mr. Royce was raised on an apple farm, but ran away from home when he was a boy. He served two years in the Army and five years at Harvard, and has not worked since he graduated. Nor, for that matter, did he before...
...FARM-SURPLUS SALES are heading into trouble abroad. Japan, second
biggest foreign buyer of ovei