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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Boone's own Kansas farm-bureau convention voted for the first time in its history to back a program 1) abolishing all acreage controls on wheat, 2) dropping price supports from today's $1.80 to $1.30 per bu. Nebraska and Colorado farm-bureau conventions voted for similar programs, in effect backed the position of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and American Farm Bureau federation President Charles Shuman...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Neil H. McElroy, the first space age secretary of defense, resigned today and Philadelphia banker Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. was promoted to the top Pentagon post, McElroy is leaving after 26 months at the helm of the Defense Department...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--The Antarctic Pact--a pledge to keep the great frozen continent at peace--was signed today by 12 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty bans war bases, nuclear explosions and missile sites forever from a vast south polar region covering five million square miles...
HAVANA, Dec. 1--An American exassociate of Fidel Castro appeared before a military tribunal late today to defend himself against a possible death sentence. He is accused of counter-revolutionary activity...
...group of Seniors, charging that today's Class Marshal election suffers from "inadequate publicity" and "unfortunate timing of the nomination deadline," has started a petition to reopen Marshal nominations...