Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little White School. Almond was born in Charlottesville on June 15, 1898, the second of the five children of a Southern Railway locomotive engineer who retired, after a 1901 head-on collision, to his 250-acre family farm in rolling Orange County. There, near the tiny village of Locust Grove on the Chancellorsville battlefield, just four miles from the Wilderness thicket where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men, Lindsay Almond grew up. Lindsay did farm chores, worked nights with his mother at the kitchen table, learned to read and write even before he trudged...
...Farm program $1.9 billion
There was something else about Budget Director Stans's report that any schoolboy could plainly see: the biggest unexpected increase in spending came not in defense, or even in fighting the recession: it came in the scandalous, runaway farm subsidy payments that raised the agriculture budget for the current prosperous farm year to an outrageous $6.9 billion...
...Finance Minister Morarji Desai sought first aid for his country's second five-year plan, threatened with strangulation by an acute shortage of foreign exchange. By week's end Desai had got the promise of i) $100 million in U.S. loans, and 2) $200 million in U.S. farm surpluses to be paid for in rupees. ¶ Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama was worried by the prospect that his country might be dragged involuntarily into a war between the U.S. and Red China. From Dulles, Fujiyama got assurances that the U.S. was ready to revise its 1951 mutual-security...
Castruccio's lunar power plant (which he calls an "electron farm") is nothing but a thin plastic sheet coated with cesium or some other material that gives off electrons when struck by light. On earth these electrons would get nowhere; they would be captured immediately by atmospheric atoms. On the airless moon the electrons could be collected by a wire mesh. Flowing out of the mesh, they would form a direct electric current...