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Word: farming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's tentative itinerary includes New York and Chicago, stops in Iowa, Texas and California-where Vice President Nixon will greet the Russians in his native state. Khrushchev announced that he would probably accept an invitation from Farmer-Businessman Roswell Garst to visit his corn farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. Explained Garst, who met Khrushchev on a trip to the U.S.S.R.: "He's primarily interested in raising corn so that Russia can raise more livestock. And we know how to raise corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Exchange of Visits | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Specifically, the Landrum-Griffin bill 1) bans picketing by one union where another union is recognized, also where the picketing union has not applied for a NLRB recognition election within the preceding 30 days; 2) extends Taft-Hartley's partial ban on secondary boycotts to railroad, airline, farm and domestic workers, outlaws threats of boycott; 3) authorizes states to handle no-man's-land disputes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Square Deal for Labor? | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...talk and talk about what to do but always come out in a circle," said Iowa Farmer John Hilbert to Pollster Samuel Lubell. Farmer Hilbert's gloomy, no-way-out tone was typical of what seasoned Listener Lubell found on a seven-week trip through farm country in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, North Dakota and Wisconsin. Lubell's basic finding: the Midwest's farmers, who once had firm opinions about federal price-support programs, are now as baffled by the massive, $7 billion-a-year farm-glut scandal as the experts, the Eisenhower Administration and Congress (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Waiting for the Whistle | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...volume jubilee edition of his works; the literary magazine Vinduet published a special Hamsun number; the Oslo university library opened an exhibit of Hamsun letters and manuscripts; Oslo theaters scheduled revivals of Hamsun's dramas. On the anniversary day, three flags flew-at Hamsun's farm, at the university, at the publisher's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Put Out Three Flags | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...FARM ASSETS increased by 9% in 1958 to alltime high of $203 billion, v. $186 billion a year earlier, primarily because of soaring values of farm land and buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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