Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 30--Little Rock was relaxed today as an almost holiday atmosphere greeted the opening of the annual Arkansas Livestock Exposition, billed as a spectacular show combining rodeo action and exhibits of prize farm animals...
...downtown Little Rock today, there was no indication of the racial strife which had plagued the city for almost a month. Negroes and whites stood next to each other to watch the two-mile parade which opened the Livestock Ex-position, and there were no incidents...
...Gross national product for 1956 was more than $7.5 billion, up 12% from the previous record year. Production of most foodstuffs was up, with bumper crops of wheat, sugar and beans. Livestock production climbed 11% in 1956; fish nets bulged 48% fatter...
What makes the inflationary spiral particularly crippling is that carloadings, the bread and meat of railroading, have fallen 2.9% up to mid-August, partly reflecting some tapering off in the economy, partly bad weather (floods and crop failures). Livestock and products, though only a small part of loadings, dropped 24.5%; lumber and other forest products, hit by a decline in housing starts, were down 12.9%. Coal was down 1.1%, merchandise shipments of less-than-carload quantity down 8.7%. Most important, the miscellaneous category that includes almost all U.S. manufactured goods and makes up roughly 50% of all loadings dropped nearly...
...immediate income in clearer perspective. The U.S. farmer is a rich man. Between Jan. 1, 1956 and Jan. 1, 1957, total agricultural equities (all assets minus all liabilities) rose by $8 billion to an all-time high of $157.3 billion. In every single category, farmers increased their net worth. Livestock values rose almost 5%, machinery 3%, household goods more than 4%. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond holdings and other investments grew bigger, in some categories as little as 0.6%, in others as much as 6%. The biggest gain was in the farmer's biggest asset: his land, whose...