Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less "mill-feed," the residue from milling which farmers feed their livestock and poultry. With feed already short, chances were that farmers would hang on to their wheat for feed. They had another reason. They hoped to have ceilings taken off farm products. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson tried another method, not so painless, to get grain. He boosted the ceiling prices on wheat, now $1.80½ a bushel at Chicago, 3?. Up also went corn, 3? oats, 2? and barley...
Almost everywhere but in the U.S. there was serious shortage-and President Truman's aides had sadly overestimated the U.S. position. In the first postwar rush to bring food shopping back to normal, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson had decided that everything was so rosy that almost all restrictions could be removed. Now, in connection with the President's announcement, he was forced to concede that somehow the nation had 61,000,000 fewer bushels of wheat than he had figured...
...world market. If the international agreement is signed, the South will have to either: 1) mechanize cotton growing so that it can be done much cheaper, or 2) grow much less cotton. The simple way of legislative price fixing seems doomed by postwar cotton economics. As Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson summed up: "If any farmer has the idea that cotton's problems can be solved merely by putting a floor under the price of raw cotton, he is in for a rude awakening...
...Government seizure; nobody quite knew what to do about rambunctious Mr. Clark. Then he relented. He watched the rival A.F. of L. union's President Earl Jimerson give in happily to the back-to-work order. He extracted the promise of help toward wage boosts from Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson and conferred with C.I.O. President Phil Murray (who apparently extracted a few promises...
...waves were pushed higher by Snyder and Economic Stabilizer John Caskie Collet on the new price for steel (see Labor). Then Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson announced in Chicago that he favored an 18? increase in the price of butter. (Said Bowles: "OPA is vigorously opposed...