Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having recently been through the mill, most farmers were being prudent with their new prosperity. In Fresno, Calif., heart of the San Joaquin Valley machine-farming area, Julius Neilsen, Bank of America farm-loan representative, said: "I never saw so many farmers come in ahead of time and pay off their loans." The Iowa Life Insurance Co. reported its sales to farmers through April were up 78% over last year. And, said Red Oak Agent Stanley Fagerland: "When the farmer gets around to buying life insurance, you know he is getting back on his feet...
...news spread to the remotest corners of Europe, swarms of gypsies got into their cars and trailers and headed for the town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
Financial and political advantages of the sterling bloc have kept Strijdom in the Commonwealth until now. But in their hour of triumph. Nationalists tried to placate the English-speaking South Africans. Advised the Nationalist Transvaler: "Don't feel bad about the election . . . Leave your valley of mistrust and suspicion. The Nationalist Party has shown that language and culture rights-and money-of both sections are safe in its care." Added Strijdom: "Formidable and manifold problems are facing South Africa, and some of them can only be solved if cooperation between the two main language groups is strengthened...
Last week Cheryl Crane, 14, tall, brown-haired and obviously an unhappy child, came home for Easter from Ojai's Happy Valley School-only to find her mother, Actress Turner, in the midst of trying to discard her latest male doll. But in this case the doll was not too easy to throw away: he was hairily handsome Johnny Stompanato, 32, a bum-around-Hollywood whose main claim to fame was a record as a pal of six-bit Gangster Mickey Cohen. Johnny and Lana had traveled Europe together, spent two months in Mexico. But upon their return Lana...
...irrigated Central Valley, spring soaked apricot trees, vineyards, alfalfa stands, tomato rows and the hopes of thousands of farmers. Sample casualty: the cotton grower, afraid that he would not be able to work his fields before the normal May 10 planting deadline; to work them later would mean the risk of bad weather during the fall picking season, lower-grade cotton, lower prices. Cotton was a $250 million crop in the valley last year...