Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offers were first made for a site for this new college: one was a wind-swept hill on the Somerville farm of Charles Tufts, the other on the Franklin, Mass. farm of Oliver Dean. When Dean's offer was turned down, he established Dean Academy instead, intended as a preparatory school for Tufts College...
...begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks up the chimney...
...only morning paper, the Topeka Daily Capital (circ. 64,304), which since 1941 has shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City's radio station KCKN...
...slump in farm-equipment sales has brought J. I. Case Co. some elephant-sized troubles. In its last nine-month fiscal period alone it lost a mountainous $4,403,000. As a way out of its troubles, the elephant last week enlisted the help of a mighty mouse: Case made a deal (subject to approval of stockholders) to merge with the American Tractor Corp., which grossed only $5,000,000 last year v. Case's elephantine $95 million, and lists the book value of its stock at a mere $2 a share v. $37 for Case. Yet Case agreed...
Despite the difference in book values, Case was glad to pay some $14 million in stock to get the mouse's help. With American, Case will get a complete new line of road-building machinery to add to its regular farm-implement line. It will also get American's 39-year-old fireball president, Marc B. Rojtman, who in only eight years has built American up from nothing to a multimillion-dollar business...