Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sprinter Bobby Joe Morrow, 21, who grew up on a lazy little cotton and carrot farm outside San Benito, Texas, glided down the cinder straightaway with such easy grace that he seemed to be running no faster than he had to. It was fast enough to win the 100-meter dash...
...FARM-INCOME RISE is expected for 1957. Agriculture Department says that heavy exports, soil-bank payments, rising population, will push up farmers' income despite rising costs of farm labor, equipment. Higher prices are predicted for pork, fruit, vegetable oils, feed grains. But prices will edge down for eggs, vegetables...
...overpopulated province of Nghean, which lies south of Hanoi, is a troubled ground that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
Slichter said that Harris "failed to discuss important aspects" of Eisenhower's policy, including reform of the Council of Economic Advisors, tax reform, farm policy, and foreign trade policy. He praised the Administration's management of the budget and said that although "growth of indebtedness should be carefully watched," it does not mean that present prosperity is "sham...
...clutches of the bank. Not a man of boundless energy, Jeeter's attempts to secure the money, which include the theft of his son's car, turn out to be more or less unsuccessful, though at the end he does manage to stay on at his farm for a while...