Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paying off their debts and piling up capital assets, have been able to stand the postwar adjustment without real distress. The man hardest hit by the slump is the "new" farmer, who moved onto the farm after World War II when original costs were high. Such a farmer is Melvin Anderson, 40, who rents and farms 230 acres owned by a prosperous big farmer in Henry County, Ill., the "hog capital of the country...
...every farmer like Melvin Anderson, however, there is another of a different shade of opinion, ranging all the way to those who speak of both Eisenhower and Benson in four-letter words. With farms 93% electrified, with capital costs high, with a standard of living that reaches as high as television, big cars, fur stoles, and college educations for the children, farmers do not find it easy to reduce their standards as Anderson has done. Said a farmer in Corning, in southwest Iowa: "I was just looking at the month's electric bill- $30. Why that's what...
...Squads Report. Out of the darkness came the shout of Recruit Melvin Barber: "Form a chain! Form a chain...
...Backbone." Melvin Wilhelm is a lean, saddle-brown man who has lived all of his 50 years on Edwards Plateau and runs a sheep and cattle ranch near the little town of Menard (pop. 2,000). Last week Wilhelm looked out across the gaunt and tortured hills of his range and stubbornly...
Alfred S. Arkley, Melvin L. Bristol, Algernon C. Churchill, Amyn A. Khan, John B. Powers, Hanson C. Robbins, Donald B. Stephenson (captain), William S. Talbot, John G. McGarrahan '58 (manager...