Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here so that the new people will know who they are." He paused, then called off or elicited names from the circle of twenty-odd birders (don't call them "bird-watchers") sitting around tables. "We haven't got too much business. Could we have the report on Drumlin Farm...
...Decided, in line with the Administration's determination to aid Iron Curtain countries seeking economic independence from Moscow, to relax restrictions on exports to Poland, thus allow the Gomulka government to buy surplus U.S. farm products for dollars at prevailing world market prices...
...Sliced into the huge stocks of Government-held farm surpluses by negotiating an agreement with Brazil under which 1) the U.S. will sell the Rio government $138,700,000 worth of the surplus, most of it ($111,000,000) in wheat; 2) Brazil will make payment in nondollar currency, i.e., cruzeiros; and 3) the U.S. in turn (under the terms of the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act) will use the currency to finance economic and other development projects in Brazil...
Snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg lost a tooth (to a dentist) and gained a year, making him 79. On his North Carolina farm he was grinding out verses, more autobiography and strumming his old guitar. Prairie Bard Sandburg cheerfully prophesied: "I'll die propped up in bed, trying to do a poem about America...
...barrel-chested, Odie Seagraves got the gambler's itch when he was barely 15, ran away from his father's farm in Corsicana, Texas to find a way to make the money flow faster. His qualifications, as his daughter later said, consisted only of "a lot of books, a lot of guts and a lot of ambition." Odie became a hotel broker, a man who lurks in hotel lobbies ready to spring out at a passing acquaintance with the magical whisper: "I've got a deal...