Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Springlike Tarheel vigor was at work last week from Kitty Hawk to Cherokee, from missile plant to church pulpit, reshaping a landscape once principally adorned by loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center...
...integration crisis faced (though far from finished), Hodges could focus state effort on the grim economic problem brought on by the sharp cut in farm employment. Watching over the nation's biggest farm population, Hodges knew that industrialization was an urgent necessity. But before he joined the platoon of Southern Governors wooing Yankee companies, Businessman Hodges spent three years getting his state in shape...
...launches to chase it. Tito divided his forces, left Dame Margot weeping aboard Nola as he and Elaine churned off over the horizon. When the Guard's launches appeared, Margot led them away from Elaine, then scooted back to Panama City. Tito went ashore close to his family farm, 75 miles west of the capital...
...American as a man can be. Born in 1914 at Mount Pleasant, a county-seat town in southeastern Iowa, he was the second son of a successful lawyer. Alfred Van Allen, whose Dutch ancestors came to the U.S. soon after the Revolution. His mother was raised on an Iowa farm...
...FARM-INCOME drop of about $1 billion to $12.1 billion in 1959 is forecast by Agriculture Department because of higher production costs and elimination of some soil-bank payments. Income is still expected to be well above...