Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really begin living until he has come close to dying. That is the message from Poet-Novelist Jesse Stuart to his readers. Busy Author Stuart, who wrote nearly 20 books in 20 years, including the rawboned poetry of Man with a Bull-Tongued Plow and bestselling Taps for Private Tussie, used to live at top speed. Then, two years ago, at 47, rushing from a lecture in Murray, Ky. to catch a chartered plane for another speaking date in Illinois, he was brought crashing to earth by a severe heart attack...
...political expediency in Washington, D.C. . . . And what were the results? For one, Uncle Sam himself took up farming. Synthetic farmers behind Washington desks started telling farmers all over again what crops to plant, how much to grow ... the prices to charge. You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield . . . The value of the Government stockpile of farm surpluses climbed to $9 billion. The cost of storage alone has been $1,000,000 a day-none of it going to the farmers and with farmers helping...
Thus it was no accident that the campaign focused hard and sharp last week in the farm belt. Both presidential candidates put their hands to the plow in Iowa (see below). Both vice-presidential candidates found time to stop off in the farm areas. Dick Nixon sidestepped agricultural technicalities to ask for faith in Eisenhower; Estes Kefauver glided along like an imperturbable praying mantis, just showing his sympathy...
...make a political speech but to visit again the Great Plains of his boyhood, "this great central granary of the United States." Rambling on with appropriate corniness, the President harked back to the "peace" theme of the television speech he had made earlier in the week (see below). The plow, he told his overalled, khakied and cottoned audience, is man's "symbol of peace"; in "that wonderful future time when there shall be no war," swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Farm families consequently "feel closer to peace, feel closer to the need for peace" than any other group...
...Agriculture Marketing Service estimates that farmers will harvest 24% less oats, 3% less corn, 10% less barley, 21% less sorghum grain, 5% less hay than they did in 1955. Main reasons are drought and cold weather, which not only cut yield per acre but also prompted farmers to plow their damaged crops under and join the Federal Government's soil bank. Since the soil-bank plan was inaugurated in late May, more than 10.7 million acres of farmland have been taken out of production...