Word: farming
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...exercised strong leadership of rare quality. He fought hard, long and successfully to push the three essentials of his program-defense reorganization, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade-through a reluctant Congress. He stood staunchly behind the attempts of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to bring sanity into the farm-subsidy program when many a Republican Congressman was yelping for Benson's scalp. After the revolution in Iraq last July, it took President Eisenhower only twelve hours to have U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon -and not even from Democratic liberals has there been any criticism that his stand on Quemoy...
Farmers. Most farmers remain prosperous; yet west of the Mississippi, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson "remains a prime liability . . . Some Midwestern Republicans are showing themselves more popular than the President because of their known opposition to Benson's farm policies...
Although the colonists were supposed to be farmers hardened to the rigors of northern winters, it was soon clear that many of them had never even been on a farm, let alone sown anything but wild oats. The first months were a long nightmare; a wheat crop failed because of a poor choice of seed. Some settlers had to stay in tents during the long dark winter. Slowly, their number dwindled (537 left in the first four years) leaving the strong and the dogged, who bought up the abandoned land. Gradually the birthrate climbed, the bulldozers and the plows...
...occupation authorities in 1946. Today 87% of Japan's farm land is owned by the men who cultivate it, v. 54% prewar. Freed from rack-renting and aided by improved farming techniques, Japanese peasants have steadily increased their output. Before World War II, the average Japanese farmer was lucky to clear $500 (in today's money) a year. In 1958 he can count on an income of about...
Though Britain refused to go along with Canada's demand for full convertibility of the pound, it did promise to wipe out restrictions on dollar-area newsprint, salmon, farm machinery. Canada in turn refused New Zealand's plea to cut down trade-inhibiting farm subsidies, but agreed to keep down tariff barriers against lamb and mutton, automobiles and aircraft. For the Commonwealth's smaller, less developed partners, Canada led a big power move to increase development aid, pour more money into the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Colombo Plan to speed progress in Asia and Africa...