Word: livelihood
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Still Breathing. Hard hit, too, are towns that depended on farming for their livelihood-selling goods to farmers and handling farm products on their way to urban markets. The emergence of large-scale, highly mechanized farming has decreased the number of farmers. And the ever expanding network of highways has made it possible for farm goods in trucks and farmers in automobiles to bypass formerly flourishing small towns...
...driver's license for identification, almost any American can cash a check at his friendly neighborhood supermarket or liquor store. This shirtsleeves casualness about money has ballooned bad-check losses in the U.S. to an estimated $1 billion a year. But bum-check pushers may shortly find their livelihood threatened by automation. In Los Angeles, a pair of science-minded entrepreneurs are using a digital computer to blot out what J. Edgar Hoover calls "fountain-pen bandits...
Toastmaster Gargan was particularly sensitive to their plight. His own voice had been his livelihood in a career devoted to the stage, movies and TV. Then, while touring with the road company of The Best Man two years ago, playing the role of an ex-President who dies of cancer, Gargan himself began to complain of a continually sore throat. Doctors discovered he had cancer of the larynx. His voice box was removed, and what was left of his windpipe now ends at a collar-button-level hole in his neck. When he left the hospital, he was speechless...
...primarily a small-town operation that serves as both social center and employer. Georgia estimates that a 100-man unit brings in $52,379 in federal pay and allowances every year. Says Major General George J. Hearn. Georgia's adjutant general: "The Guard is a kind of livelihood for boys in the country and in small towns." More than that, the Guard armory is often a town's most impressive edifice, and a social mecca of food sales, high school graduations, civic meetings and basketball games...
...them. There is the problem of marginal farmers, most of them in the South, who barely scratch a living from the soil; their difficulty is not overproduction but underproduction. The marginal farmer lacks the capital, land, energy, initiative, skill, or whatever else is required to earn a U.S.-style livelihood in agriculture in competition with commercial farmers. The other problem, of course, is overproduction. The Kennedy Administration proposes to deal with it by what it calls "supply management"-that is, imposing broader and tighter curbs on farm production while keeping price supports at high levels. The alternative approach, favored...