Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep Thoughts. The U.S. was also a land willing to cope with its problems, private and public. Labor Day was at hand, there was a tang of autumn in the air, and the children had to be outfitted for school. The glare of U.S.rockets had mostly quieted the nervous outcry that arose after the Soviet's Sputnik I, and U.S. missile progress was continuing apace. The U.S. Capitol, seething with the great labor-reform battle, was buried in a Niagara of mail from the home folks. Western Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour...
...prepared to bring in the biggest crop ever. Detroit proudly unveiled its sporty 1960 automobile crop, and giant commercial jets were becoming so commonplace that the average man no longer turned his face up to look at them when they cast their falcon shadows over the land. Factories hummed, production figures zoomed, the economy rocketed upward toward the stratosphere...
Across the land, Americans sensed the venturesomeness and the drama in Ike's meetings, first with his allies and then with his antagonist. And they knew that the importance of the meetings lay precisely in the fact that they were initiated...
...offering an effective solution to the surplus-wheat problem, which follows the general line of the corn program he got written into law last year. Under that program, farmers were assured a slightly lower but still profitable Government price for all the corn they could raise. They turned up land that had not been used in years (TIME, May 25), poured on fertilizer, by last week were growing a record surplus that figures to sock the U.S. taxpayer $500 million or more for this year's crop...
...Well-nigh incalculable power over our economy." says a McClellan committee report, "is wielded by this union . . . Whoever controls the Teamsters controls much more than the immediate destinies of 1,500,000 union members; he and his lieutenants reach into every household in the land." The fact that Hoffa is the man who controls the Teamsters, the report adds, is "tragic for the Teamsters Union and dangerous for the country...