Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus it was no accident that the campaign focused hard and sharp last week in the farm belt. Both presidential candidates put their hands to the plow in Iowa (see below). Both vice-presidential candidates found time to stop off in the farm areas. Dick Nixon sidestepped agricultural technicalities to ask for faith in Eisenhower; Estes Kefauver glided along like an imperturbable praying mantis, just showing his sympathy...
...went heavily for Ike in 1952 but now have active Democratic governors, e.g., Edmund Muskie's Maine, Bob Meyner's New Jersey, Ernest McFarland's Arizona, and even (they told themselves) Frank Lausche's Ohio. And beyond all that lay the hopes of cracking the farm belt-the "Solid North" of the G.O.P...
...peace" theme of the television speech he had made earlier in the week (see below). The plow, he told his overalled, khakied and cottoned audience, is man's "symbol of peace"; in "that wonderful future time when there shall be no war," swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Farm families consequently "feel closer to peace, feel closer to the need for peace" than any other group...
...other side of the coin, private expenditure, came to an overwhelming $236 billion, which the GOP loudly hearalds as an indication that Rich America is growing richer and the standard of living is skyrocketing. The private debt for 1954, unfortunately, soared to its highest point in history. The non-farm debt reached an all-time peak, and the farm debt exceeded any since the bleak days of 1932. Naturally, the more you borrow the more you can spend. Under this truism, the Government and the public borrowed and spent more than they ever had before...
...peasant expressed "inexorable opposition to the regimentation" of the of the collective farm; "he wants more time to work on his private garden plot, but beyond that he wants passionately to return to a system of private farming...