Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he was only 30, will succeed Laybourne as chief of domestic correspondents. Jim Shepley cubbed on the Harrisburg Patriot, edited by his father, was a United Press correspondent in Washington before he joined TIME as a Washington reporter in 1942. He covered the China-Burma-India. Southwest Pacific and European theaters in World War II, later served as military aide to General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army. He was back in civvies only a short time when General Marshall, just retired, called him back to duty as an aide on his special presidential mission...
...down surpluses, Congress passed a soil-bank program to pay farm ers for taking acreage out of production. But the technological explosion makes such curbs futile. Last year, with strict acreage and marketing controls in effect, millions of acres in the soil bank and a severe drought pinching the Southwest, technology-armed U.S. farmers matched the biggest total harvest they had ever known. On land diverted from corn and wheat under acreage allotments, farmers bring in crops - barley, soybeans, sorghums - that compete with corn and wheat as livestock feeds. Result: bigger corn and wheat surpluses. "As soon as they plaster...
...citizen of Texas. For the past 30 years Professor Spruce has been celebrating the flora and fauna of Texas in imaginative oils laid on with a realistic brush. Now the University of Texas is publishing an annual full-color portfolio of the works of artists portraying the Southwest. Its first choice, picked by a blue-ribbon committee of leading Texas art patrons advised by the state's most prominent art-museum directors: stocky, sobersided Everett Spruce...
TROUBLED MINING INDUSTRY will soon drop into deeper hole because U.S. Government will stop stockpiling lead, zinc. With zinc prices down to 10? a lb. v. 13½? three months ago, Southwest's Eagle-Picher Co. will lay off 1,100 workers by closing its lead and zinc mines in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas. Other big mine shutdowns are on their way in New Jersey, Nevada, California...
...make the first broad-scale assault ever attempted on this problem, the Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare Departments, at President Eisenhower's orders, selected 54 counties and three multi-county areas in the Southeast, Southwest, New England, along the Ohio River valley and in the Great Lakes area as laboratories in which to test a new idea. The big idea: to encourage local farm leaders, businessmen, clergymen and others to take over and work out their own farm-improvement plans, tailored to their own needs, with technical and loan assistance supplied by their state...