Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agriculture. "When this Republican administration took office the bottom was falling out [of farm prices]. Under the new Republican laws in the first six months of 1956 average farm prices steadied and then went up. They are still going up ... The farmer today can once again look forward to raising his crops for his markets instead of Government warehouses...
...Carmine Can Make This One." By the time the delegates streamed onto the floor Friday afternoon for the big votes, the lines were fairly well drawn. Estes Kefauver had the whooping support of delegates from the farm belt and the power-hungry West. The South and some big-state, big-city machines (with the notable exception of Jim Finnegan's labor-conscious Pennsylvania) were trying to settle on a stop-Kefauver candidate...
...handily ahead of Kefauver. The Missouri delegation rushed away to caucus. Connecticut's Bailey grabbed Missouri's Senator Tom Hennings by the lapels and shouted a plea that he turn his Humphrey votes to Kennedy. But Hennings, aware that Kennedy had voted against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports, barked right back: "What about the farm vote?" There were angry stirrings in the Tennessee delegation, and Albert Gore grabbed a microphone to withdraw in favor of Kefauver...
Nasser was born in a farm village some 200 miles up the Nile from Cairo. Like most Egyptians, he was of mixed Egyptian and Arab stock. "We were all one family there," he has said. "The landlords treated the people as slaves." His father was an assistant postmaster. Sent to school in Cairo, young Nasser learned the classic Middle East three Rs: reading, 'riting and rioting. Shouting "O Almighty, disaster take the British!", he fought nationalist street battles, won admittance to the military academy. Of these struggles he has bitterly said: "You come back from your studies feeling...
...economy: barely 1% of India's imports in the past year has come from the Iron Curtain countries v. 25% from Britain, 8% from West Germany. While the U.S. has handed Nehru's government $500 million in gifts and loans since 1950, Russia has doled out farm machinery and one Ilyushin-14 airliner, worth in all no more than...