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...shorts, a mixture of bran and other coarse material left when flour is milled from wheat. When corn is dear, many a Southerner ferments shorts with sugar to make "corn liquor." Last week Senator Arthur Capper complained that one of his constituents in Kansas went to a local AAA office, asked for shorts for his hogs. Instead of giving help and sympathy, the young college woman whom AAA had put in charge replied to him: "Oh yeah? What about some step-ins for your cows while...
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Farmers. With the help of AAA, farm prices were boosted back 45% of the way from their Depression bottom to 1929 highs. Farm income was upped to $6,000,000,000, a round billion above 1933, exclusive of $500,000,000 paid by AAA for restricting production. But the biggest scarcity factor in boosting farm prices was the Drought...
...been confronted with so many entirely new problems as during the past year. The processing tax on the live weight of hogs slaughtered . . . has cost us between nine and ten million dollars for the year. This in part was our contribution to the $101,945,334 which the AAA recently stated was paid to Corn-Hog Farmers up to Oct. 1. In view of the close association of our industry with agriculture ... it is especially gratifying that we could participate so substantially in assisting the farmer." Sales had jumped 22% to $151,000,000. Profits for 1934 were...
...world knows, there is plenty of sugar. In fact on Aug. 31 there was a world surplus of 9,673,000 long tons. That very surplus, coupled with President Roosevelt's desire to help Cuban producers and to protect loud-squawking U. S. beet growers, had led the AAA to fix quotas on sugar shipments into the U. S. under the Jones-Costigan Act (TIME, April 30). To the quotas which Secretary Wallace fixed, last week's squeeze was largely...