Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Subtle & Clever. Across the length and breadth of big and little problems ranged the conversation. Politician Humphrey talked about the perils of farm politics in the Midwest; Politician Khrushchev grinned widely when he talked about outmaneuvering his rivals in the Politburo said of one of them (unnamed by Humphrey): "He knew arithmetic but he didn't know politics." Humphrey was deeply impressed with Khrushchev's knowledge of U.S. political details ranging from understanding of constitutional balances down to vote margins and knowledge of such individual races as the victory of Nelson Rockefeller for Governor in New York...
...requires that Government programs be evaluated in terms of what must be given up by the increased taxes necessary to pay for them." Parallel path to an eventual balanced budget is stiffening of taxes in areas where the collector's touch is lightest (insurance companies, oil depletion allowance, farm cooperatives) and a broadening of the tax base to "stand the stress and strain of high revenue requirements...
...that some farmers at once embrace the new farm technology which multiplies crop production, and demand a structure of Government price supports and other benefits and services which, at an annual cost to the American taxpayers of between $7 and $8 billion, is exceeded only by defense expenditures and debt service...
...since become noted only for his fast-talking style (he was once clocked at 487 words in one minute) and for a speech titled "Nebraska" that he delivered more than 300 times. Last week, in fact, after the official count of the 1958 election showed that Nebraska's farm revolt had given Brooks 211,424 votes to Anderson's 209,869, Anderson still refused to believe it: he raised the $20,000 necessary for a re-count which, by otherwise general agreement, will end up with Nebraska's still having elected Ralph Brooks as its first Democratic...
...puppet. He threw Calles out of the country and carried on the revolution. He nationalized the oil industry, expropriated the huge haciendas. Peasants took the land that had fed the nation, used it at first to feed only themselves. Finally, the country's communal-farm system evolved...