Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left to the Secretary. The 1931 proposal to plow up every third row of cotton might be one method. Another might involve allowing a percentage of a crop to go unharvested. The farmer agreeing to cut his 1933 production would get a Government certificate on which he could borrow at the bank, the loan being repaid after the harvest when the Secretary is sure that he kept his reduction agreement...
...Cabinet can decree the annual budget and borrow money on its own authority...
...appointed chairman. A Dutchess County neighbor of President Roosevelt, he served under him as New York State Conservation Commissioner. He publishes the American Agriculturist, runs a 1,400-acre fruit and dairy farm. Said he: "Our idea is to fix the credit structure so that a farmer can borrow money for planting, harvesting and upon his land all in one spot...
...Passed a bill by Arkansas' Robinson to allow nonmember state banks to borrow directly from the Federal Reserve...
...current average farm price for the commodity and [its] fair exchange value"- that is, pre-War parity. Thus the wheat processing tax last month would have been around 56? per bu., the cotton 7? per Ib., the beef 2¢ per Ib. Such taxpayers were made eligible to borrow the necessary funds from R. F. C. Processors of farm products for export were to get tax refunds. If the public tried to dodge the tax on cotton, for example, by turning to rayon, silk or linen, the Secretary of Agriculture might place a competitive tax on those substitutes...