Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fassbinder, whose first big-budget film and first film in English this is, gives an appropriate quality of ponderous slap stick to the first half of the movie. There is a lot of blubbery smooching between Hermann's wife and her lascivious cousin, a bulky red-bearded artist (Volker Spengler). Hermann ignores this, but giggles apprehensively about the infant Nazi Party: "The National Socialists are against the Socialists and also against the Nationalists." In an odd scene witnessed by the distracted chocolate manufacturer, Brownshirts throw bricks at the shopwindow of a Jewish butcher, but the bricks do not seem...
...enough to cover most production costs is a good one. But many experts believe the Government should drop its set-aside programs and once more urge farmers to produce. The U.S. and the world need all the food that American farmers can grow. Set-asides also tend to benefit big farmers, who can more easily take, say, 10% of their land out of production than small growers...
...future of American agriculture is really up to the farmers. Paradoxically, in an enterprise perhaps more heavily influenced by the Government than any other, big and efficient farmers like Pat Benedict are giving the nation a lesson in Adam Smith economics. By carefully calculating their potential profit in a free market, planning their operations around those computations and reinvesting the profits in more output, they are acting the way Smith said capitalists should. The results have been about what Smith predicted: growing production, rising innovation, expanding exports?and reasonable costs to customers...
Some city consumers may sneer at that statement. Though recent polls show widespread sympathy for farmers, there has long been a fashionable opinion that big farmers, at least, are pampered wards of Government living high off the inflation that is pushing up food prices?10% this year. Few realize that 87% of the rise in food prices since 1973 has occurred after the food left the farm. That is a consequence of Americans' insatiable desire for ever fancier processing and packaging, along with rising off-farm wages. Last year, for the first time, workers in slaughterhouses, canneries, freezing plants...
...Bank of America asserts: "You'd have to be pretty incompetent not to make money in cattle this year." Reason: a combination of high prices for meat and relatively low costs for corn and other feeds that has corn growers grumbling. Vegetable growers in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the winter-spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing...