Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations. He urged Congress to abandon the parity formula-based on farm prices and farm costs in 1910-14, good years for U.S. farmers-and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set price supports between 75% and 90% of the average market price in the preceding three years. As an alternative, if Congress could not bring itself to discard the parity idea, Ike suggested that Benson get authority to set support prices as low as 60% of parity...
...addition the President said he is "setting steps in motion to explore" ways of disposing of U.S. farm surpluses overseas so as to foster peace. "Food," he said, "can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable peace." He would call conferences to work out the details...
Mild as the President's recommendations were, farm-state members of Congress found them too hard. "Antifarmer," cried North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Barked Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender, Cooley's opposite number in the Senate: the request for lower price supports "doesn't stand a ghost of a chance." Nor does the U.S., if Cooley and Ellender have their way, stand a ghost of a chance of coping with the farm scandal...
...Promiser. With only a 20-minute noon break for nonalcoholic refreshments, Khrushchev talked for six hours. Topic No.1 before this extraordinary session was Russia's seven-year economic goals. Khrushchev was still trumpeting his familiar promises-80% more industrial output, 70% greater farm production, 62% more consumer-goods production-but, significantly, he omitted his 1970 target date for overtaking the U.S. He promised shorter hours, higher pay, a front door for every family, income tax repeal, "greatly reduced" police surveillance ("There are now no cases of people being made to stand trial for political crimes") -and he breezily explained...
...White, 57, a top University of California physicist, who got the $38,000 yearly job (v. $12,000 at U.C.) after previously enlivening a TV high school physics course in Pittsburgh. A lanky, friendly, precise talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate anyone. White's secret is superb preparation: he spends twelve hours every day writing the script, building laboratory props and rehearsing with a 21-man crew. The preparation...