Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sandy beaches of Baltic Latvia toward the heart of the Soviet Union. With Russian officers peering over the shoulders of American pilots, with its distinguished passengers at the windows looking down upon unfamiliar landscape, the jet flew on across the great Russian plain, the jagged pattern of Russian farm fields, an occasional blue lake and great patches of green forest, until it let down through a blur of urban haze for a smooth landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. It was 2:47 p.m. when Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, fresh in dark grey summer-weight suit and light...
...land reform is the first real attempt in ten years to spend some of Venezuela's $800 million a year in oil revenues to develop the backlands. Thousands of farmers who have fled from-rural poverty to the city slums may now begin to drift back to the farm. The plan will cost $240 million the first year, $7 billion in all. Only the Communists denounced the plan as too moderate and refused to sign the commission's report. The other parties agreed with Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias Blanco, who declared that passage of the bill "will...
...Tough Way. The big change did not come in a twinkling. Humphrey's own Senate Class of 1948 was the last to go to Washington with Fair Deal liberals predominating. Since then, the old appeals have gradually faded. Many an orthodox liberal has lost his enthusiasm for big farm supports, big housing dreams, and big labor. And as the U.S. public has changed to a pay-as-you-go attitude, so have the liberals changed. "These men," says Indiana's freshman Democratic Congressman John Brademas of his classmates, "are well educated. Yet they have an earthiness about them...
...FARM INCOME dropped in first half year by $1 billion from 1958 to annual rate of $12 billion, primarily because Government discontinued acreage-reserve payments...
...private, free-for-all debate with Michigan's G. Mennen Williams (Williams on Kozlov: "Urbane, gracious, shrewd, tough." Kozlov on Williams: "Not well informed on foreign affairs"). He visited Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley (who, said Kozlov, reminded him of the mayor of Leningrad), inspected an Illinois farm, a Pittsburgh steel mill. Through it all, Frol Kozlov plainly showed that he was having a good time, just as plainly took every opportunity to call for the kind of "peaceful coexistence" that means peace at Communism's price...