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...gave the President the soil bank program (backed by an authorization of $1.2 billion) that he had asked for as a cure for surpluses. But the conference committee had coupled with it an utterly contradictory, surplus-producing, one-year restoration of mandatory supports for five basic commodities (cotton, wheat, corn, rice and peanuts) at 90% of parity...
...Dual parity, an arrangement that would set up two methods of calculating parity prices on wheat, corn, cotton, rice and peanuts and give farmers the higher of the two. (Said Benson: "This would make a joke of parity. Parity . . . would become a statistical stairway to the promised land...
...hard going south of the Mason-Dixon line. Perhaps because they are the only Americans who ever lost a war, Southerners are more likely than others to take a tragic view of life, and man's depravity is the favorite preoccupation of Southern literature-whether magnolia-scented or corn-likker-tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed...
Peanuts in the Parks. Corn Senators, milk Senators, wheat Senators, cotton Senators, hog Senators, rice Senators and peanut Senators had formed a series of log-rolling alliances. They pushed through an increase in corn acreage, a two-price system for wheat, a dual parity plan covering cotton, wheat, corn and peanuts, a two-price plan for rice, mandatory support prices for feed grains and higher supports for dairy products. Then, in a crowning touch of irresponsibility, they voted to "set aside," i.e., ignore, much of the stored surplus commodities. Asked Vermont's exasperated Aiken: "Why not a formula which...
...sight and sound and feeling with the dreamlike removal of remembered childhood. "(He) mused with half-closed eyes which went in and out of focus with sleepiness, upon the slow twinkling of the millions of heavy leaves on the trees and the slow flashing of the blades of the corn...and everything hung dreaming in a shining silver haze..." In his treatment of the boy's father's Agee shows a sure power of characterization, even in these few pages, which is nearly equal to his descriptive skill. The only possible complaint is that more space was not devoted...