Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which would send corn and hog prices crashing, hopes to bring corn acreage from 1932-33's 59,000,000 and last year's 54-500,000 acres down to some 54,000,000 acres. Reluctant to discuss the matter. AAA legalites nonetheless conceded that this production control was quite as direct as that achieved under the AAAct. They expected to get away with it because of the obvious difficulty a complainant would have in getting the law into court for a test case. If it should escape the Supreme Court's interdiction, the scheme could easily...
...reward for diverting their acres from "soil-depleting" crops (cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco) to "soil-building" crops (alfalfa, soybeans, grasses), farmers will receive Federal bounties averaging slightly less than $10 per acre. Thus, by the back door of soil conservation, the New Deal will continue to achieve some production control of cash crops, which the Supreme Court has forbidden it to approach directly...
...difference between the AAAct and its current substitute is that under the former the farmer was bound by contract to reduce his cash crops by specified percentages. Now he reduces them voluntarily within Department of Agriculture specifications and is rewarded according to the extent of his cooperation. But to control next year's corn crop, the Department last week proposed to set definite acreage limits, enforced by an extra reward and a penalty...
Many beginners are under the illusion that waxing is just for experts who want their skis to glide exceptionally fast and that they can learn much better on slow skis. This is wrong as one has much better control over a fast gliding ski and besides a ski that is not properly waxed will run unevenly in jerks, which makes it much harder to maintain one's balance. A good waxing job, while gliding smoothly downhill, will "bite" on walking uphill, thus preventing to some extent back-sliding and saving considerable energy...
This clash between a pseudo-progressive machine and a foremost educator involves the independence of state universities. If these institutions are to contribute to the welfare of the people they serve they must be free from political control. No University worthy of the name can be constricted to the narrow creed of the politician who happens to be Governor...