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...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
...Your Cake. In Fargo's Gardner Hotel they faced pressmen, autograph hunters, bobby-soxers. Clint Anderson took the floor to explain that U.S. wheat farmers could now combine the 30? bonus with the previously announced "certificate plan"-thus assuring them the best possible price for their wheat any time between now and March 1947, no matter when they sell...
...Inspiring. At noon he and Clint Anderson sat down with Production Marketing Administration agents and Farmers' Union bosses for a well-advertised starvation lunch: a cup of potato soup, one piece of bread (no butter), one cup of coffee (no cream or sugar). Butch lighted a cigar and looked slyly at the hungry diners from the northwest plains. Then waiters trooped in with salmon steak, potatoes, string beans, plenty of bread & butter...
...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...
...vast stockpiles. Now that the piles were depleted, the U.S. could no longer afford such waste. If the U.S. meant business, it would have to take drastic measures to cut down on its vast numbers of pigs, cattle and chickens, no matter how profitable they are to farmers. But Clint Anderson, too well aware of the powerful farm bloc, plainly hoped that the grain could somehow be found painlessly...