Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-known products of North Dakota are wheat, livestock, and Lawrence Welk. More than 30 million people tune their TV sets in each week on Welk, 53, and his "Champagne Music" (Sat. 9 p.m. E.D.T., ABC). In less than a year, listeners have boosted his Nielsen rating from a puny 7.1 to an astonishing 32.5. Welk and his 24-piece band are consistently beating the four NBC and CBS shows opposite him (People Are Funny, Jimmy Durante, Two for the Money, It's Always Jan). His delighted sponsor, the Dodge Division of Chrysler Corp.. has renewed his contract...
...single wheeled form of transport-no bullock cart, not even a bicycle. Everything in Bhutan is carried along bridle paths by mules. Bhutan has no electricity, no roads, no factories, no industries, no movies. And there are no cities, only clusters of farmhouses surrounded by rice and wheat fields. When trouble occurs in some corner of the kingdom, it may take two months (in time of flood, six months) for the news to reach the government...
...April 23) have received relatively little mail about the President's veto. The reaction has been selective, largely by crop. Many Southern farmers are angry because the support prices on cotton and peanuts will be considerably below last year's. There is some anger and disappointment among wheat farmers because the wheat price support announced by the President (a national average of $2 a bushel), although 19? above the previously announced price, is 8? below last year's average...
National Farmers Union, Denver. Essentially the farm organ of Trumanite Democrats, with a voice that seems higher than its membership: 308,000 family memberships in 25 states, strongest in the wheat-growing states of North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. President: loose-jointed, Kansas-born James G. Patton, 53, onetime high-school athletic director. General counsel: ex-President Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Economic adviser: Leon Keyserling, chairman of Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The Farmers Union was organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving...
...when pork was king. Beef is not only the biggest single item on the U.S. food bill (17? out of every food $1) but it is also the largest single source of U.S. agricultural income. Farmers and ranchers grossed more from beef in 1955 than for their crops of wheat, cotton, rye and rice put together...