Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morison as a Nieman Fellow (1951-52) at Harvard and likes to think of himself as an amateur historian. His specialty was the Revolutionary War, but now he is a Civil War buff. On weekends at Gettysburg he has tramped over the battlefields near the President's farm, armed with a huge folding map and binoculars, sometimes studying with Dr. Frederick Tilberg, chief historian at Gettysburg, at other times with his 13-year-old daughter Debby and nine-year-old son Larry, who currently is concerned with the reasons behind J. E. B. Stuart's failure...
...between themselves, Nominees Stevenson and Estes Kefauver planned some mutual coattail-grabbing. Stevenson, for instance, should help make up for Kefauver's lack of popularity among Southern leaders. And, promised George Smathers in a stopover in Sioux City, "we'll keep Kefauver in the farm areas. Take here in Iowa, Kefauver has been a lot more in demand than Stevenson. People come up to me all the time and say, 'Just send Kefauver in, and we can carry the state for Kefauver and Stevenson.' Get that...
...traditional in an election year, no coattail will be ignored. At week's end Harry S. Truman poured a little of his hellfire into the farm country of Iowa, and the Democratic National Committee announced that he would campaign (two or three speeches a week) "in his inimitable...
...stem the tide of dwindling enrollments, campus after campus has launched campaigns to convince young people that the farm is still a land of opportunity. Ohio State University has set up career conferences at high schools across Ohio. "But when we went into the schools," says Assistant Dean John T. Mount of the College of Agriculture, "we found that a lot of people thought agriculture still means plowing the land and milking the cows and little more." The University of Nebraska's College of Agriculture is thinking of sending out a special recruiting exhibit to high schools. Iowa State...
...Cool Tractor. New comfort for the hitherto weather-beaten and windburned farmer is promised with the coming of a tractor that is air-conditioned in summer, heated in winter. The experimental tractor, its cab encased in glass and steel, was displayed by its inventor. J. F. Schaffhausen, of Cockshutt Farm Equipment. Inc., in Doylestown, Pa. Sparing the farmer from the seasons, says Schaffhausen, will reduce fatigue and boost his life expectancy, save him an annual bad weather loss of $1,000 and 30 working days. If brisk demand develops, Cockshutt will mass-produce the tractor, sell it for about...