Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signed into law 121 bills passed by Congress, among them the $887 million aid-to-education program, a $42 million excise tax cut, the debt limit hike to $288 billion, a 1½-year extension to the farm surplus program that has already disposed of $4 billion worth of crops...
...while, Giuffrè gave unstintingly to the church and its works. Not long after Giuffrè's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace...
Last week, as Trainer Willie Molter eased him into top form at Arlington Park near Chicago, Round Table already had won $1,215,114, with 32 wins in 47 starts. In the dollar derby, he was ahead of Calumet Farm's Citation ($1,085,760, with 32 wins in 45 starts) and just short of the record set by Belair Stud's Nashua ($1,288,565, with 22 wins in 30 starts...
Round Table inherited his speed from his dam, an English mare with a fast past named Knight's Daughter, and his endurance from his sire, the rugged. Irish-bred Princequillo. Foaled on the Kentucky farm of A. B. ("Bull'') Hancock, Round Table was running as a three-year-old in 1957 when he caught the fancy of his present owner. A younger brother of Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, with the same family paunch and financial punch (oil, uranium), Travis Kerr, 56, suspected that Round Table might become the great horse he needed for the mildly...
...Table was taken to California by Kerr and promptly began to earn his keep on the hard-surfaced tracks that were to his liking. Kerr brought him east for the 1957 Kentucky Derby, where he finished a good enough third behind Ralph Lowe's Gallant Man and Calumet Farm's Iron Liege, then passed up the prestigious Preakness and Belmont to campaign against easier pickings in California. By season's end Kerr...