Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a tone that rarely creeps into Eisenhower messages to Congress, the President last week attacked that costly, archaic contraption, the federal farm-price-support program. Said Ike in his farm message to Congress: ¶ It "has not worked." Most of the money goes to larger producers who need no help. "It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty." ¶ It breeds ever bigger surpluses, because high support prices attract capital to supported crops, and soaring farm technology keeps defeating crop-control measures. ¶ It is "excessively expensive." Farm-stabilization costs are running to $5.4 billion this year...
Down on the Farm. Last year, in the final hectic days of the 85th Congress, Rules Chairman Smith took no chances on being forced by a committee petition to call hearings. As a dozen major bills -relief for depressed areas, housing, mineral subsidies, etc. -piled up before Rules, Howard Smith simply disappeared from Washington. He returned a week later, smilingly explained that he had had some hay down on his farm that needed tending. Says he today: "There were about a dozen things thrown at the Rules Committee, and they would have cost the taxpayers about $10 billion. There...
...soldiers around the Sierra Maestra showed less and less hunger for the fight. In the long stalemate the rebel army grew in size and fervor. Castro talked and talked of his dreams for Cuba, sitting up until dawn in the huts of the guajíros-the squatters who farm the rugged mountains. "It is not right," he said, "that a man should go to prison for robbery when he is able to work, wants to work and cannot find a job." The guajíros nodded gravely and joined...
...they were gaining, but they did not realize that victory was so close at hand. On Christmas Eve a priest climbed the hills to report to Castro that General Eulogio Cantillo, commander of Moncada Barracks, would like to have a chat. Castro celebrated by coming down to the family farm at Mayari, his first visit in four years. "Oh, what a party we had that night!" says his mother. "His soldiers were all over the place, and he bought $1,000 worth of beef to feed the people from all around...
...McCoys, daguerreotypes of life on the farm, outrageously violate all soil-bank restrictions on hokum but provide some homely fun while they...