Word: harvester
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...draft a bill to bring some order into the ever-growing mess of farm subsidies and surpluses, challenged the Democratic Congress to pass a reasonable bill on its own. The Democrats reasoned that it would be better to pass no bill and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson harvest some more blame for farm discontent. But word has drifted back from the farm belt that Democrats may well be blamed if they do not pass a bill. Probable next move: drafting of a farm bill as unreasonable-by Ike's terms-as possible, to ensure an Eisenhower veto...
...dares stand idle on the harvest plain...
...make himself feel good again with one simple device: staging a rally, with chants, parades and a thunderous ovation from the excited mob. Last week, as May Day approached, Castro faced the threats of guerrilla war by former followers and heavy unemployment in the fields below once the sugar harvest was ended. He concentrated on producing the biggest May Day demonstration in Cuban history...
...rice fields stretching south of Saigon seem quiet enough as farmers in conical hats go about their tasks of burning off the stubble of the last harvest or deepening the myriad canals in expectation of the first rains. At sunset the war begins...
...claim with a polite, formal note to Washington. The State Department as politely rejects it, pointing out that the islands were first settled by a Brooklyn guano firm in 1857. In 1904 a Boston syndicate, grandly titled the Swan Islands Commercial and General Trading Co., bought the place to harvest coconuts and tropical woods, but lost money steadily through the years. Amateur explorers pitted the islands in unsuccessful hunts for buried pirate gold...