Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived in the Back Bay area of Boston and who is now living in the "never-never" land of married student housing, I welcome Mrs. Jacobs' arguments with open arms. How 1 would love to once again dodge people, taxis and cigarette butts for a "corn beef on rye" in a cozy basement delicatessen. Until such a time I only pray that the city planners are sentenced to live in the bleak "hells" called housing projects...
...Gordeyev) by Maxim Gorky, is a visual experience that roars across the screen with the rage and razmakh of a flash fire on the steppes. Unfortunately it is also a piece of Marxist propaganda that suggests Premier Khrushchev might profitably send some of his moviemakers to Siberia-to stimulate corn production...
...Million Bargain. But this was only one of the lures that the Government offered the farmer to take part in the program. Farmers could sell their corn to the Government at the support price of $1.20 a bushel-about 20? above the average market price. In addition, the Government punished farmers who did not come into the program by dumping grain on the market to hold down the competitive price. Finally, the Government allowed farmers in the program to use land withdrawn from feed grains to raise other crops...
...over by these obvious advantages, nearly half of the nation's feed-grain farmers signed up for the program, agreed to cut 23.1% of their corn acreage and 31.1% of their sorghum fields. As late...
...without the skill of American farmers, who boosted production on their curtailed acreage by the liberal use of fertilizer and intensive cultivation. In addition, the summer weather through the Midwest was nearly perfect for the crops: days of warm sun broken just often enough by rain. As a result, corn and sorghum production was off only 490 million bushels. From present signs, the $1.8 billion stockpile of surplus corn will be reduced only slightly. To make matters worse, many farmers who cut feed-grain production made a killing by using their fields to raise soybeans, which the Administration was buying...