Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down from the snow-covered Rockies shrieked a chill gale one day last week, sucking up the powder-dry top soil of southeastern Colorado, tossing clods and pebbles across the cracked farm lands of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, blasting at the withering roots of range lands through central Texas, and blowing on out across the Gulf of Mexico. Across the prairie dust clouds boiled up as high as 20,000 feet in the worst duster since the black days...
...just after dusk, and 46 skull-capped youngsters stood at their evening prayers in the synagogue of the Shafrir village farm school just outside Tel Aviv. They prayed: "If any design evil against me, speedily make their counsel of no effect and frustrate their designs. Do it for the sake...
Joseph Unschlicht, one of the top military Chekists in the civil war, later chief of the Red air force, had opposed Stalin's violent farm collectivization policy. He disappeared. And there were others: Andrei Bubnov, onetime education commissar (TIME. April 2); Sergei Kamenev, chief of chemical defense; Moisei Rukhimovich, commissar of defense industry; and M. S. Kedrov, chief of the defense section of the State Planning Commission. The point about all these liquidated Old Bolsheviks was that they were all connected with Russian defense. Said Voprosi Istorii drily: "There were many other comrades who did much to strengthen...
...Algeria twice as many French soldiers are engaged against rebels who fight in small bands of 50 or 100 that vanish under strong attack to fight again somewhere else. The French have the lives of 1,000,000 Frenchmen (v. 140,000 in Indo-China) and thousands of farms to protect. The colons demand protection for their property, would like a guard for every farm. The army demands concentrated forces to attack and root out cen ters of rebel infection. The government has compromised by doing both...
...boom headed for a sharp upturn or a slide? For months the question has split official Washington. One faction, which includes President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, worried that business was slowing down, kept a wary eye on such soft spots as autos and farm prices. But the Federal Reserve Board leaned in the opposite direction, convinced that the boom was still picking up speed so fast that it might get out of hand. Last week the Federal Reserve governors decided it was time to put more checks on credit and industrial expansion. With a flourish...