Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While cleaning up the farm this spring we hauled off a beautifully weird collection of burned-out furnace grates and twisted baling-wire arabesques-dumping them in a cow pasture against a tree. The effect is much the same as that conveyed by the U.S. grotesquerie of steel birds ranged about the U.S. Pavilion's pool and tree...
...House defeated by a resounding 214 (162 Republicans, 52 Democrats) to 171 (21 Republicans, 150 Democrats) the House Agriculture Committee's wild, catchall farm bill to expand subsidies by raising price props and tightening production controls on milk, corn and grain, sorghums. Cheered Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "A vote of confidence in ... those who are dedicated to returning American agriculture to a sound basis...
...which he liquidated in 1952), held the principal interest in Western Union (which he sold out in 1952). He owned a 47-acre Connecticut estate at Fairfield, a house with a dining room imported from the 18th century London home of David Garrick, 6,500 acres of Maine farm-and woodland, and six Saint Bernards. At this point of conspicuous prestige, on June 17, 1952. Fox signed a contract to buy the 121-year-old Boston Post. From then on, the road led down...
...friends. Degas, with a draftsman's colder eye, made the backstage world of ballet dancers and the artificial world of footlights into a private universe. Pissarro, who conscientiously tried his hand at each new style, set his easel up in the French countryside, gave even the meanest farm a nobility and poetry. Van Gogh took the same subject, extended his sensibilities to achieve a kind of ecstatic identification with the countryside's own windswept rhythms...
...done. What they did last week was to form the Home Furnishings Council of America, with a budget of $1,000,000. Among other things, the council will try to educate the housewife on the basics of furniture buying, will send speakers and films to women's clubs, farm and teen-age groups, Parent-Teacher Associations and firms that employ many women. It will also train salespeople-many of whom do not have the best taste in furniture-to help the housewife find out what she really wants, show her what new pieces will fit in best with...