Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican hopes that the farm revolt had been pacified were not realized. The Democrats picked up Congressional seats along the entire length of the Mississippi and Missouri River valleys...
...Farm Policy: Despite a year of bumper crops and rising prices, farmers west of the Mississippi do not generally credit Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson with their prosperity-in fact, quite the contrary. The farm vote, traditionally Republican, remains a real Democratic hope (TIME, Oct. 20). The best Republican hope is that Midwestern farmers will vote according to the jingle in their pockets on election...
Prosperity. "Last winter the Administration gave the private citizen and private enterprise a helping hand-not a federal wheelchair. Now the recession is rapidly running out. Personal income is at an alltime high. Last month unemployment dropped by 600,000. Gross farm income, per capita farm income, land values, farm ownership are up or at record highs. We should be able to keep the consumer price level stable over the next year-and isn't that great news for every family in America...
...made a copy supervisor and, after two years' service in the U.S. Army, became vice president in charge of radio-TV commercials in 1951, then director of both print and radio-TV copy in 1954. Adman Gribbin, who lives in Greenwich, Conn, and has a farm in Massachusetts, is tall (6 ft. 1 in.), quick-witted and relaxed ("My biggest problem is keeping the sheep fenced in on my farm"); he is slated to be top man when Sig Larmon, now two years over Y. & R.'s usual retirement age, steps...
...setting of The Bell is a lay community of semi-contemplatives, a kind of British Brook Farm attached to Imber Abbey, which houses an order of enclosed Anglican nuns. Imber is made up of a rather odd parcel of stuffed hairshirts. They include the son of an old military family, who seems to think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders...