Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm problem, expediency had multiplied "our price-depressing surpluses at the risk of making the problem twice as bad." The answer: a "program of principle" that will "preserve our continent's basic resource of soil" and a determined effort to get farm prices and income "back on a genuinely healthy basis." ¶ In labor relations, the Administration has stuck fast to the principle of free collective bargaining despite the argument that in major labor disputes the Government should force the parties to agree by knocking their heads together. The result: "For the first time in our history, a complete...
...mourned that the nation's youth have no incentive to enter the world of science. Jimmy had plenty of incentive. Enough, in fact, to sit down and build a six-foot rocket. Jimmy wanted to enter further into the world of science by flying his rocket from a farm outside Charlotte (pop. 145,000). He was confident that it would work fine. Why shouldn't it? He had made it himself on a rickety table in his basement...
...same general pattern applies in the cattle market. Since mid-July beef cattle and calves, which constitute the largest single source of U.S. cash farm income, have been bringing farmers higher prices. All grades and weights slaughtered in Chicago last week brought a top price of $26.27 compared to $22.50 in the same week a year ago. The prices are up because lower production and premature marketing have resulted in a short supply of beef. Stockyard experts predict that the price trend will continue upward into November...
When Congress began battling over an election-year farm bill seven months ago, the situation of the U.S. farmer was one of uncertainty. Prices of most farm commodities had hit bottom, the parity ratio had fallen to 80%. Traders, realizing that the largest U.S. farm surplus in history was jamming storage bins, sold short or shied away from the exchanges, and futures prices were shaky. But now the attitude of the farmer has changed from uncertainty to the beginnings of cautious optimism...
...last week, farm prices were 10% above January levels and the parity ratio had climbed to 85%. Wheat, corn, oats, rye and other commodity futures were rising. Department of Agriculture economists revised an earlier forecast, predicted that net farm income in 1956 will be higher than last year...