Word: farmlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most U.S. cities, growing up haphazardly from cowpath to Main Street, needed 100 years or more before their population reached the 60,000 mark. But in Bucks County, Pa., a new city for 60,000 people is rising dramatically from 5,000 acres that were wood lot and farmland less than a year ago. By 1954's end, if all goes according to plan, Levittown, Pa. will be a complete community, ranking in size with such older Quaker State sisters as Bethlehem, York, Lancaster, Johnstown and Chester...
...railroad track, 20 miles of improved roads, 30 miles of sewers, and a water-treating plant which will handle 254 million gals. of water daily, enough for a city about the size of Washington, D.C. Nearby, 20,000 new housing units are sprouting from the rich Bucks County farmland (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...hear him speak at the National Plowing Contest. He will move on to Indianapolis for a Republican rally September 9. After a speech to the American Federation of Labor convention in New York City in mid-September, he will turn westward for a whistle-stop tour through the Midwest farmland...
...different kind of cover subject was Farmer Gustav Kuester (TIME, April 29, 1946), chosen to typify U.S. farmers. In addition to working 240 acres of Iowa farmland with his son, Dale, Kuester had been a Republican member of the Iowa legislature for twelve years...
...been sent by Walker's wife; others which referred to "the Florida situation" used some kind of code. Walker, who had listed his 1951 income as $17,000, explained this by saying that he had bought $50,000 worth of Florida land after selling off some Oklahoma farmland, and that Mansour was interested in buying an adjoining tract for a "nest egg." Walker denied profiting by any of his transactions with Mansour, but admitted: "Some of the things I've done have been improper...