Word: land
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm hold of the sharp-thorned fact that in the U.S. today too many people are trying to make a living as farmers. To help low-income farm families escape into other livelihoods, and at the same time to ease the problems of surpluses. Rockefeller proposed a long-term "land-use program" similar to what the Committee for Economic Development advocated two years ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1957). Under this program, the Federal Government would rent entire farms for long periods, take the land out of crop production and put it to "such uses as reforestation and conservation...
...California's San Joaquin Valley live the 300 Negro men, women and children of Teviston. Most of the family heads went to the valley from Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas some 20 years ago as migrant farm workers, pinched their dollars, and with earnest pride bought their own land on a sandy alkali flat and called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply of its own. To get their water, Teviston people...
...length, Teviston voted to create the water district, even though the assessed valuation on their land was so low that a bond issue seemed out of the question. Still, Teviston hired a lawyer, and the people emptied their pockets, begged loans from banks, floated a tiny ($7,800) bond issue. Even after the deep well was dug, the hard-pressed laborers had to dig down for more money to help pay for equipment and water lines. A few bluntly refused: "I'll believe it when I see the water," grumbled...
South West Africa is a big (318,000 sq. mi.), largely treeless land that once belonged to imperial Germany and now has the unhappy distinction of being the last of the League of Nations mandates. Other such territories are either free or have been placed under U.N. trusteeship; but the adjoining Union of South Africa goes blandly on ruling its old mandate as if it were a permanent province...
Delfino agreed. "The growers are right. In five years, I do not think that there will be a sheep industry in the U.S. With rising land values and labor costs, it is pretty tough for a rancher to raise a sheep and make much over $1.50 on it." Delfino, on the other hand, can buy Australian sheep for $5.50 or less each, net $3 per head minimum when he sells them...