Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happily, was the farmer's income. After four years in the fever-land of falling income-in part induced by price-depressing surpluses-the farmer has reached a turning point. His condition is better and his prospects are good, reported Department of Agriculture economists last week. Realized net farm income is up 4% over 1955 and should rise an additional percentage point next year...
...other 18 hours vanish in a succession of conferences, interviews, speechwriting, speechmaking (three a week on Radio Warsaw), and listening to dozens of workers' delegations from all over the country. A group of workers from Wroclaw asks about higher wages. A delegation from an association of collective farms seeks his ideas about farm policy. They all get a little of Gomulka's time. At 8 o'clock one night last week a batch of students, workers and farmers walked in, spent three hours getting answers to questions. Typical questions: When do the Russian troops leave? What guarantees...
...effort to reorganize party and government. Gomulka is pursuing some highly unorthodox methods, by Stalinist standards. He has proved himself far more liberal than Tito. He is sending a delegation to study farm cooperatives in the Scandinavian countries, another to look into the U.S. building industry. He realizes that farm collectivization has failed, but does not know what to substitute. He promised the Roman Catholic Church that he would permit religious education in the schools in return for the recently freed Cardinal Wyszinski's appeal to his followers to keep the peace...
...predictions pointed to another record-smashing year. After a survey of 340 capital-goods producers and buyers, FORTUNE predicted that capital spending (which includes farm outlay, office building, machinery purchases, etc., in addition to industrial expansion) would hit $50 billion next year. Part of the dollar increase, said FORTUNE, will be the result of price rises, but even so, physical volume will increase greatly next year...
...FARM UPSWING is reviving agriculture equipment makers after year long slump. International Harvester will add about 1,000 employees and increase tractor output from present 150 to 290 daily at Rock Island and Louisville plants, which were closed this fall for six weeks. Company's August-October sales hit near-record $337 million, as farm prices edged up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...