Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another major beneficiary of the farmer's new-found prosperity was the farm-machinery business. Owner Don Berkemeir of the Lytle Implement Co. reported that he sold 25 new tractors so far this year, drew groups of up to 25 farmers at a time to his showroom to view the latest in mechanical hay balers. "Business," said Berkemeir, "is within a few dollars of double last year." Used tractors taken back as trade-ins scarcely stay in the shop long enough to be oiled and repainted. Fresh from selling off 160 head of feeder cattle, Farmer Bill Hynick...
...unique. The Central Iowa Farm Business Association completed its annual report on 153 representative farms, reported net income in 1957 averaged $11,200, or 32% over 1956's $8,467 and more than 2½ "times 1955's low of $4,235. For a national view, the Farm Journal polled its regional correspondents, found business noticeably better in every section except the Southeast, where row-crop farmers have been hit by weather and acreage cuts, but livestock and poultry farmers are prospering...
...Manchester Guardian called his decision against Churchill "rather hoity-toity"), Rich has kept Chicago at the top of big league U.S. museums. He originated a score of important shows, most recently the exhibition of paintings by Pointillist Georges Seurat that was threatened by fire last month while on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (bringing Rich to New York within six hours). By encouraging his curators to build up the museum's print, decorative arts and Oriental collections, by starting a photography section and by "sneaking in" a new department of primitive art, Rich has kept...
...hurt you," he explains, "but I don't want to hurt my wife and child either." To make matters worse, Lana has already ditched her steady beau (Barry Sullivan). "I'll have to look through your letters." Sullivan snarls. "Maybe I've missed something." In view of the headlines, audiences are inclined to snicker at this point. Anyway, that rat of an Englishman is soon exterminated in a plane crash, and the picture dies with him. For the next hour Actress Turner conducts a peculiarly, sniffly and tedious wake...
...especially) feeling." Rowse attributes this partly to Sir Winston's breeding: the "very strength of the two natures mixed in him, the self-willed English aristocrat and the equally self-willed primitive American" combined to make him greater as a national savior than as an everyday politician. This view of human character as a sort of neatly mixed blood pudding need not be taken too seriously by Author Rowse's primitive U.S. readers, who will find this hearty, bouncing chronicle a pleasant change from more subtle, sophisticated works of history...