Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcing for a third full Senate term, Iowa's Democrat Guy Mark Gillette, 75, said he had formerly hoped that "by the end of my present term the progress toward world peace would be well advanced, but the goal is still far ahead of us." Because of this miscalculation, Minor Statesman Gillette reluctantly steeled himself to the prospect of carrying on with "the great unfinished work." Said he: "If the studies and experience of these many years have brought something of value, [it] belongs to the people of Iowa. I have no right to refuse to serve them further...
...GAINES Sioux City, Iowa...
MATTHEW CHINENYE NDUKA Iowa Wesleyan College Mount Pleasant, Iowa...
...similar program, sponsored by Aiken, was passed by the 80th Congress in 1948, but has not come into operation.) In the farm belt, the president of the country's largest farm organization voiced his approval. Said Iowa Hog Farmer Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation: "The program is forward looking, with principles essentially sound for the long-range welfare of American agriculture." But the plan ran head-on into formidable opposition on Capitol Hill. Some longtime students of the farm problem, e.g., Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell, argued with details of the program...
...result: a thriving agriculture that grows high-value crops on "manmade" soil. Maine's potato farms produce 11 times as much an acre as they did 80 years ago. In the 1950 census, Connecticut led all the states in income per acre of land in farms: Connecticut, $95.31; Iowa, $27.73; South Carolina...