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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter wheat, where upland corn burned out in July's drought, where the sorghums were good and cattle brought the best price in years, there were arguments hotter than political disputes over the best kind of wheat-Tenmarq, which the State College has pushed, Chiefkan, which farmers found more profitable. In Ohio, with its 255,000 farms (1.03 autos per farm, .66 tractors, .31 trucks), where late spring rains delayed corn and soybean planting, where the corn crop was down by 20,000,000 bushels-there was talk of a new 40-inch combine and of what the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wallace on the Way | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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