Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling city consumers that high supports are the reason for high food prices, the Eisenhower Administration has set "city against country and country against city." Actually, contended Adlai, in an astonishing defense of a support program leading to continuing surpluses: "Abundance is not a blight but a blessing." Farm production can remain high without harm; surpluses can be distributed where they are needed through a bigger school-lunch program, a food stamp plan for the needy, a world food bank...
Needed: Easier Credit. What he wants to do, said Stevenson, is tell "the rest of the country the truth about farming." His message, as he summed it up: "The farmer just isn't getting a fair share of our national prosperity." The Democratic platform, according to Adlai, points the way to better days on the farm: 90% parity, more and easier credit, extension of production and marketing agreements, promotion of Eisenhower's soil bank, which Stevenson called "a good Democratic idea." To these proposals Stevenson added one of his own, pitched straight at his corn-and-hog-growing...
...Marx Brotherhood. Plodding on through the Northern farm states and into the Northwest, Kefauver worked hard at flushing out the voters, but was sublimely oblivious to the fact that his caravan seemed to be in the hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were lost, people missed the plane. Top Aide J. Howard McGrath, his sodden cigar clamped in his jaw, once absentmindedly darted into a ladies' room; local leaders along the route were frequently unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn...
...Ukraine to bag a string of ducks. Last week Nikita Khrushchev traveled all the way to Yugoslavia to indulge his hobby in one of Europe's more exclusive hunting grounds: the vast domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy day's hunting Khrushchev potted three chamois, one stag. But even as the guns barked at Belje, it was evident-and local Communists were saying-that Comrade Khrushchev had come to Yugoslavia for bigger game than that...
...Blind River area were getting ready to enjoy a return from some $200 million of risk capital; a dozen new uranium mines were scheduled for production this year. In the West, farmers were hauling in record crops of oats and barley, and harvesting another good wheat crop. Farm cash income for the first six months was up 30% from last year, and still rising. The boom is wonderful while it lasts-and it shows every sign of lasting for a while...