Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his trip was brief (his plane, Columbine III, made only seven stops) and frequently monopolized by chart-bearing experts, Ike came face to face with the unmistakable signs of disaster: careworn and worried farm men and women; parched, dried water holes; abandoned farm homesteads, their doors swinging open in the wind; thin, underfed cattle munching on de-spined prickly-pear cactus. As he went from farm to farm, Ike touched the weak, thin dust, crackled the dry tumbleweed between his fingers, examined with a knowing farmer's hands the bony backs and dull coats of underfed steers...
...Levittown complete with automatic dishwashers, bowling alleys, ladies' socials and nightly movies. Their pay is 25% above comparable jobs in the U.S. and tax free-but they growl about the heat, curse the dust, and count the days until they can return home and buy that restaurant or farm with the money they have saved. Saud's rigid Moslem code imposes added irritants. Books are banned (apparently in fear of subversive literature). Wives are irritated by the Saudi refusal to let women drive anywhere outside the company compounds. Christian worship is forbidden, and services must be conducted surreptitiously...
...proud that his grandfather was a Scottish crofter, or tenant farmer (he keeps a picture of the croft on his desk). In 1843 grandfather left his farm on the barren Isle of Arran and walked to London, there founded the famed publishing house, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Macmillan's mother was an American girl, Helen Belles, from Spencer, Ind.,* who met his father when she, recently widowed, had gone to Paris to study singing and he to study music. Young Harold won scholarships to Eton and Oxford, where he was secretary of the Oxford Union and hailed by the undergraduate...
...everything he did, Gomulka was being pulled one way by his own people, another way by Moscow. Last week, faced with a chaotic farm problem, he retreated farther than any avowedly Socialist or Communist country ever has before from the doctrinaire Marxist position on land ownership. To encourage those collective farms still operating (some 7,500 of 10,-ooo have been abandoned since Gomulka took power) he will reduce by one-third the state requisitions from them, and pay twice as much for what the state does get. For other land, restrictions will be removed from ownership, leases, purchases...
...Last week, as Griffin walked alone and unaided from his workshop to the house on his parents' farm outside Mansfield...