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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister learned much that will be of use in developing Western policy and in future negotiations with Russia. He has come away very impressed with Russia's fear of Germany and with her desire to negotiate a stabilized situation in East Germany, free of what Khrushchev styles the "abnormal" presence of the armed Western enclave in Berlin. Macmillan is equally convinced that Khrushchev's domination of Soviet policy is so complete that any conclusions requiring Russian concessions will have to be made at the summit...
...introduction to the catalogue, Historian Charles Coleman Sellers notes that Peale's paintings "are of our own time more truly than of his. They have a peculiarly modern appeal in their very personal motivation and in their use of realism as an escape from reality. That other painters regarded [still life] as fit only for school work or amateurs may have encouraged him to take it as his own, to develop it with his wonderful virtuosity and to find in it a little province of personal supremacy, of surprises and satisfactions, of no money value but of solace...
Symbol & Example. Farmer North is a symbol-and a prime example-of the profound changes that have been wrought in U.S. agriculture by mechanization and automation, plus the new use of fertilizers. In the last 20 years, farming has changed more radically than in the previous two centuries. Once farmers used to dole out fertilizer thinking only of how much it cost them. Now they pour it on by the carload, confident of getting back bigger profits at harvest time. Farm use of fertilizer has risen in 20 years from 1,500,000 tons to 6,200,000 tons...
...best eating bird two leaders emerged: Charles Vantress, 46, with headquarters at Duluth, Ga., who raises about 3,000,000 roosters a year; and Henry Saglio, 47, who raises 15 million hens at Arbor Acres, his farm near Glastonbury, Conn. They sell the chickens to the hatchery men, who use them to breed the chicks, which in turn are sold to the broiler men to raise for the market. Of the nearly 2 billion chickens that are turned out for eating every year, Vantress' roosters sire 75%; Saglio's hens mother about 50% of the total...
...Levy a property tax on raw materials imported from foreign countries by a manufacturer and stored for immediate use...