Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less "mill-feed," the residue from milling which farmers feed their livestock and poultry. With feed already short, chances were that farmers would hang on to their wheat for feed. They had another reason. They hoped to have ceilings taken off farm products. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson tried another method, not so painless, to get grain. He boosted the ceiling prices on wheat, now $1.80½ a bushel at Chicago, 3?. Up also went corn, 3? oats, 2? and barley...
...only trouble with this was that Clint Anderson also promised farmers that the ceiling prices for hogs would remain the same until Sept. 1 and the subsidy for "finishing" (fattening) cattle would stay in effect until June 30. Thus, it was still more profitable to feed corn to produce meat than to sell the grain. So whether these piddling price boosts would lure much more grain off the farms was doubtful. Some experts guessed that grain prices would have to be raised somewhere in the neighborhood of from 25? to 50? a bushel to bring the grain...
Breaking their precedent of relying exclusively on professional skill for directing its plays, the Harvard Dramatic Club announced yesterday that William A. West '49, a member of the entering class, had been selected to stage the spring production of Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset...
West, formerly a staff-sergeant in the Air Corps and now an entering Freshman of Winthrop House, brings to this assignment considerable Broadway experience. This will not be his first introduction to Maxwell Anderson, for he had an important role in that author's "Star Wagon...
...market. If the international agreement is signed, the South will have to either: 1) mechanize cotton growing so that it can be done much cheaper, or 2) grow much less cotton. The simple way of legislative price fixing seems doomed by postwar cotton economics. As Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson summed up: "If any farmer has the idea that cotton's problems can be solved merely by putting a floor under the price of raw cotton, he is in for a rude awakening...