Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter local apathy at the polls. The Tory candidate, 39-year old Stockbroker Donald Box, was a local product; his Labor opponent, Sir Frank Soskice, an outsider. The choice between them rested with an electorate whose light Labor majority is well-tempered by a solidly Conservative bloc of prosperous farm owners, shopkeepers and small businessmen. The result: 6,811 fewer voters went to the polls than last year, yet Labor increased its majority by 4,125 votes...
...when he took a second wife, but the resemblance was short-lived. A conscientious family man with a keen interest in a balanced budget, the young Maharajah shipped his first wife into retirement, settled down contentedly with his second, to collect, not concubines, but seed catalogues and brochures on farm machinery. Stripped in 1948 of his autocratic rule by the establishment of independent India, Yadavindra happily assumed the responsibilities of his new role as a salaried civil servant ($105,000 a year plus an allowance of $250,000), devoting his days to the raising of giant squashes and citrus trees...
Undeterred, the Maharajah ordered the palace's electricity shut off. When that failed, he ordered truckloads of manure dumped into the drinking wells. At last he gathered together a crew of farm hands and laborers and carried the princes (together with a few stray concubines) bodily out of their palace. Displaying their first real spirit in years, the evacuated princes pitched tents on the roadside and settled in for a long stay. "All in all," said one of them, "it's not much worse than being in the jungles on a tiger shoot...
...automated devices for aerial navigation, fire control and missiles. Quesada said: "We will accent reliability of performance-a characteristic woefully lacking in all our military weapons today." ¶J W. Eric Phillips, 63, became chairman and chief executive officer of Canada's Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., largest farm-implement maker in the British Empire (1955 world sales: $368 million). He replaced James Stuart Duncan, a company hand for 46 years, who resigned as president and board chairman. The post of president remains vacant. Toronto-born and educated (University of Toronto '14), Phillips won a colonelcy in the British...
Automobile production in 1956 was figured to hit 6,000,000, down 1,900,000 from last year, but a total that would still make it the fourth best year. The Commerce Department foresaw farm machinery continuing downhill during the second half; "sales this year will probably be 15% to 20% below 1955." And textiles were threading through "an in-between year−not as good...