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...uncultivated parts of confiscated estates; more, inflamed by the example, simply seized land amid scenes of bloodshed and destruction. After Castillo Armas took power, many landlords grabbed back their holdings with equal violence. The bulk of the 1,950,000 indifferent, largely illiterate Indians stayed unbenefited on their subsistence corn patches high in the mountains...
...unto Pharaoh . . . look out a man discreet and wise . . . and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine...
Egypt's agricultural adjustment act of about 1800 B.C., outlined in the later chapters of Genesis, did not bring general acclaim to the secretary of agriculture. Given authority over the land, Joseph stored corn in the plenteous years and sold it back to the people during the famine for gold rings, cattle and land. But there has been great dispute about Joseph's right to appropriate surplus crops and then compel the people to pay for them. What is more, his system eventually resulted in state ownership of all the land, and some people thought that was entirely...
...Iowa, where 1956 politics begins with the price of corn and ends with the price of hogs. Dr. Haridas T. Muzumdar, 55, India-born American and a professor at Mt. Vernon's Cornell College, announced that he will campaign for the Republican congressional nomination in Iowa's Second District on a foreign policy platform. His program: "To carry on a campaign whose one purpose shall be a discussion of how to win our Asian and African neighbors as friends and co-workers . . ." A friend and biographer of Gandhi, Dr. Muzumdar is less concerned with beating G.O.P. Incumbent Henry...
...largely by the Agriculture Department's price-support operations on other fronts. In the years 1953-55, some 29 million acres were taken out of wheat and cotton production under the crop quota program. But on 17 million acres farmers started growing feed grains. This and the large corn crops pushed down the price of feed, thus encouraged farmers to raise cattle faster than the demand called for. To add to the trouble, pig production, which normally does not move up with cattle production, also increased. As a result, the estimated farm value of cattle has now dropped down...