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...case of soybeans and wheat, the Administration's hopes seem well founded. Realistically assuming soybean plantings of 54 million acres, a modest yield of 27.3 bu. an acre would produce a bounteous crop; good weather could raise this yield to 30 or more bushels and cut the price of beans by as much as 50%. Wheat is headed for a bumper crop of up to 300 million bushels more than last year. There is a good chance that wheat prices will dip this year-unless the Russians come into the market again and bid prices up. Other produce, including...
Safire published a second edition so quickly because of the bounteous contributions of President Nixon and that empyreal employer of epigram, Spiro Agnew. Since the language of politics is essentially the lexicon of propaganda, the tone of the Nixonisms reflects what are perceived to be the shifting moods and needs of the nation. Thus, Safire observes, the Great Unwashed is undesirable, while the Silent Majority is praiseworthy. Nixon's critics, says Safire, have manufactured their own verbal ammunition, such as Nixonomics and Southern Strategy...
...first-rate. All pupils get their books and daily hot lunches free. At the local clinic, an outpatient visit costs $1.50. A city "social bureau" provides, among other things, "home help" to look after the children in an emergency. The Lundmarks also can use the city's bounteous sports facilities, including a curling hall, two pools, four ice-skating arenas and 20 athletic halls. Like all Swedes, they get a $224 state grant at the birth of each child, and collect an annual $250 allotment until the child reaches 16. Through a rent subsidy, the government pays...
...beating in the tax courts last week. In New York, the state's transfer tax department suppressed a smile as it revealed that Howard Gould, sobersided last son of Railroad Baron Jay Gould, left an estate of $64 million when he died at 88 in 1959. Of this bounteous legacy, about $37 million will go straight to Uncle Sam and another $13 million to the state, leaving 26 legatees to scramble for the $14 million remaining. A keener student of the tax game, the late auto heir and playboy Horace Dodge, who died at 63 in 1963, took...
Sonic Barriers. Largely as a result of Wallace's advocacy, the "farm problem" of today is vastly different from the cruel paradox of the Depression, when farmers went broke amid bounteous production. Today, despite ever more plentiful crops, the efficient farmer is assured of a decent living, contributes his buying power to the economy and his output to the hungry of the world. He may be part of a "permanently subsidized peasantry," as Charles Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, insists, but he stands tall on his land...