Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone rang in Vice President Richard Nixon's Washington office. Over the wire came the voice of Dwight Eisenhower, who wanted to talk about the speech Nixon would make that afternoon at Ike's Gettysburg farm. There 650 Republican leaders from every state would gather for the formal launching of the 1956 campaign. "Lay it on the line, Dick," said the President. "Let's get a little tough with those people...
...material and spiritual -"As we think of it," says Jordan, "each person receives a living while contributing a life"; 2) complete racial brotherhood; 3) complete pacifism. Husbands and wives work from 6:00 a.m. to evening worship at 6:00p.m. Younger children attend nursery or kindergarten school on the farm; older children go to regular segregated classes in the county...
This spring the county health department obtained an injunction against the farm's racially mixed camp for children. A construction company refused to dredge the creek for swimming when they learned there was to be interracial bathing there; a crop-dusting firm refused to dust the farm's cotton. Then came dynamite-three sticks of it-which blew up the farm's roadside produce stand. After that there was an avalanche of insurance policy cancellations...
...bale surplus to a manageable 4,000,000 bales by 1959. But few cotton economists are that hopeful or think that any Government program alone can offer a final solution. The real answer is for Old King Cotton to grow up to the new U.S. industrial revolution. With mechanized farming methods, the U.S. currently produces more cotton on 17 million acres than it did on 36 million acres in 1930. Yet efficient growers cannot take advantage of their progress because cotton has been grown under an uneconomically high. Government-supported price system favoring the small marginal farmer. Cotton economists...
...General Sir William Howe, having taken Brooklyn with "the largest expeditionary force Great Britain had ever assembled" (32,000 men, 200 ships), sent his redcoats across the East River to a landing at Kip's Bay (34th Street). Under the massed fire of 86 naval cannon, the Connecticut farm-boy defenders ran for their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted. "Take the cornfield." When the militiamen rushed unheeding past him, according...