Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates could take time out to see it, there was a point to the pageant engulfing them as they swept from city to town to farm: the U.S., though waxing so prosperous as to create an image of a promised land, is nonetheless energized as never before by its electricity of change. Complacency is stifled in the roar of dozers driving thruways, of cranes lifting the beams for new skyscrapers, of furnaces belching out more steel, of rockets soaring to dizzy heights. Clearly there is in the U.S. of 1956 no lack of interest in the search...
...clouds and swarms, the politicians, pundits and pollsters descended on the Midwest. Not since the great locust plagues of the 1870s had the farm states seen such an invasion: candidates criss crossed one another's paths, columnists probed and interviewed, and any farmer who had not been polled by the pollsters felt sadly neglected. The consensus at week's end: Adlai Stevenson has cut into Dwight Eisenhower's farm strength, but not by enough to win the national election...
Democrat Stevenson was leaving no field unplowed in his effort to win the Midwest. Following up his defense of continuing surpluses and his promises of fixed 90%-of-parity price supports made in his major farm speech at Newton. Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). he rounded out his case (see box) at Oklahoma City, picturing the farmer's lot under the Republicans in terms of despair and suffering. Then he took off for a trip through the South, but by midweek he was back in Missouri, thence to Indiana...
Word from What Cheer. To Peoria, Ill. traveled Dwigtit Eisenhower, having already turned down all suggestions that he try to outpromise Stevenson. If Adlai's farm-rich home state was turning against Ike (who carried Illinois by 443,000 in 1952), it could not be seen in the crowds fanking Peoria's streets four and five deep. That night in Bradley University's overflowing field house (seating capacity: 8,300), Eisenhower was interrupted 31 times in 28 minutes by applause while he scorned the Democratic farm program, stood confidently...
Nonetheless, from every hamlet and crossroad, pundits pushed the panic button for Republicans after studying the skies (large parts of Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa, as well as Kansas, are suffering from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...