Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until prices had fallen to normal levels did the real state of the Colombian economy become apparent. The profits of the 1954 coffee bonanza were not invested in the modern communication system and farm machinery the country needs to make it agriculturally self-sufficient; instead, Rojas had spent uncounted millions on military equipment--heavy weapons, jet planes, beer, and television sets for the soldiers on whose support he depended. His few sound investments were mostly expensive industrial installations, which the country's capital-short economy could ill afford. Moreover political interference with the operation of government-owned projects further hindered...
...Midwestern Revolt. The much-touted farm revolt barely affected Ike himself. In Minnesota's prosperous Deerfield township, for example, Ike was down by twelve percentage points from 1952-but he stood at a still healthy 64.5%. In Iowa, votes ranging up to 63% in well-to-do farm districts more than compensated for losses in drought-stricken areas. Eisenhower even won some low-income Kentucky farm districts that had gone for Stevenson by as much as 75% in 1952. Only in Missouri did Stevenson manage to stem the Eisenhower tide-and that state's reversal...
...amon a clear, blue Pennsylvania Election Day, the new couple from the farm over on Route 10 stepped into the one-room,, white clapboard Cumberland Township election house outside Gettysburg. They identified themselves to an election official, and workers at the roughhewn wooden table checked their names in the record books. "Housewife."' said the listing of the woman's occupation. After her husband's name, the record read:"President of the United States."' Under the light of four naked electric light bulbs, by the heat of a small oil stove, the President of the U.S. marked...
...South Dakota, where well-rounded Republicanism has sent G.O.P. Senators to Washington for 20 years, a farm revolt threatened mild-mannered Incumbent Francis Case. Pressing hard on Case in a tight battle was burly (6 ft. 2 in., 235-Ib.) Kenneth Holum, 43-year-old farmer-turned-politician...
...South, the Republicans fought a holding operation with incumbent Republican Congressmen increasing their margins, and in the industrial areas of the Midwest the Republicans actually gained two seats. In much of the Midwest-primarily the areas in which the farm vote was critical-the Republicans were losers rather than gainers from the new voting patterns. "The old man of the Ozarks," 58-year-old Dewey Short, seemed likely to be the most resounding Republican casualty of all. In his attempt to win a 13th term in the House, he was trailing 36-year-old Charles Harrison Brown, a polio victim...