Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the title "Morse's Right-to-Work Law" [Dec. 29], you criticized me for discharging an employee on my Eugene, Ore. farm. My employee was not discharged because he was a Republican. Neither was he discharged because he was a supporter of President Eisenhower. He was discharged because I discovered that he was not loyal to the position of trust which he occupied in my employment. [He] lived rent free in my home and was really a member of the family circle; in that relationship, he was present at many discussions within my home, both political and otherwise...
...forces of inflation). And there are even more squabbles, sometimes petty, sometimes vital: between Cordell Hull and Raymond Moley at the London Economic Conferences; between Jerome Frank, general counsel and an early casualty of AAA, against George Peek (a representative "of the older generation" in the battle for farm equality); and, in the most dominant fight of them all, between the two Franklin Roosevelts...
...bench-testing in secrecy the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Four years later, he made his first flight tests. His tiny, ungainly gadget, launched from a relative's farm near Auburn. Mass., hardly got off the ground, but it was the true precursor of today's mighty rockets. Three years later, an 11-ft. rocket climbed 90 ft. Its noise attracted the local cops and stirred up so much opposition that Goddard left Massachusetts for thinly populated New Mexico. There his rockets climbed higher and higher. In 1935 one reached the sensational height...
...DROPPING FARM PRICES will put parity below 80% for first time in 19 years. Lower prices are coming for cotton, grain, citrus, eggs, milk...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Maria Callas in Italy, Victor Borge at home on his Connecticut farm and Sir Thomas Beecham in Nice form a talking trio...