Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saddleries and Turkish coffee are giving way to the smoke of a ceramics factory and the fumes of vans trucking Ethiopian hides up the new road from Elath. Settlers whose Spartan waves often do without even a dress-up blouse for the Sabbath have opened up nearly 500 new farm communities, and Israel now grows two-thirds of its food. Behind the orange groves of the Philistine coast spread huge chicken ranches where Israel's No. 1 meat fare is fattened for the platter on wire-decked runs as up-to-the-minute as New Jersey...
POLITICAL NOTES Water for the Elephant Farm Economist William G. Murray, 54, on leave from Iowa State College to take his first flyer at statewide office, wasted no time on temper last winter when Republican bosses studiously ignored his early race for Governor. "I haven't carried enough water to the Elephant," he acknowledged after a glance over the shoulder toward plodding Lieut. Governor W. H. Nicholas, who at 65 has spent more than a generation tending every breed of party animal. Genial Billy Murray, a Presbyterian six-footer with a scoutmaster's look of integrity and energy...
...full of frightening stories about older women who let themselves go-and wake up to find their husbands gone. "A woman who doesn't wear lipstick," says Max Factor, president of one of the top five U.S. cosmetics firms, "feels undressed in public. Unless she works on a farm." The result: 95% of all women over the age of twelve now use at least one of the products manufactured by the U.S. beauty industry...
...return, the students gain the experience of various different skills, and an acquaintance, at least, with some types of work they are not likely to encounter later in life. Many students find working on the farm, for example, among the most rewarding experiences Putney has to offer. The farm used to be a more integral part of the school than it is now, but those who work on it still have a chance to become familiar with some aspects of the problem of agriculture today...
...many high schools throughout the state--a student can graduate having had only business arithmetic, general science, and biology. This is true especially in rural areas, where students lag far behind city students in science and math, primarily because the duties of the farm or general store do not create strong academic interest. Negro schools also lower the general education statistics, usually because the Negro is more interested in learning a trade than in making honor rolls. The average Negro student is not so likely to attend college as his white counterpart, and consequently is not interested in purely "academic...