Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delusion that more rigid farm controls and larger surpluses to dispose of at the taxpayer's expense can lead to a prosperous farm economy...
This year the value of the D.F.L. endorsement for U.S. Senator was unusually high. The recession was hitting diversified Minnesota later than the rest of the nation and the D.F.L.'s labor support was vigorous and active. Despite the farm upturn, the D.F.L. was heartened by an increase in National Farmers Union membership since 1956 from 35,000 to 41,000 families. Beyond that, the D.F.L. Senate ticket would be helped mightily by the fact that popular Governor Orville Freeman, running for his third term, is considered such a lead-pipe cinch that the leadership-starved Minnesota Republicans have...
...regime felt the need for tightening up. Last year Khrushchev proposed a radical decentralization of ministries, creating 105 regional enclaves, which the 105 bosses have tried to remake into self-contained little kingdoms. Plants dependent on outside supplies found them hard to get. In Tashkent, for example, the Voroshilov farm machinery works had to lay off workers for two months when shipments of vital castings from the Stalingrad tractor works failed to appear. Last week the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, worried by a "chain reaction" that is growing "like an avalanche." published a decree imposing fines and jail terms...
...this point of deadlock. TIME Correspondent Denis Fodor taxied up into the mountains to call on Rebel Leader Kamal Jumblatt, 39, hereditary chieftain of the Druses, the fiercely dissident Moslem sect who farm and feud along Lebanon's eastern border. Reported Fodor...
...getting started. Iraq's King Feisal, 23, and his cousin Hussein. 22, of Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which has plenty of farm land to reclaim, will be able to absorb many of the 500,000 Palestinian refugees who have made Jordanian politics so volatile. Premier Nuri appears as likely to dominate the new Federation Cabinet as the 14 Cabinets he has bossed in more than 25 years as Iraq's strongman...