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Amid the Alien Corn Sir: I do hope someone tells the visiting Soviet farm delegates about the agricultural subsidies here. It would be just too much to send them away thinking that all this came from untrammeled, unsubsidized free enterprise...
With the occasional aid of stage props (including a horse and pet monkey), Chandler lampooned his opponents without mercy and with considerable corn. His chief targets: Governor Lawrence Wetherby ("Wetherbine") and Senator Earle Clements ("Clementine"), the acting majority leader of the U.S. Senate and absentee Democratic boss of Kentucky. Happy has made much of a rug in Wetherby's office, which he says cost $20,000, and of an $863,200 bill for air-conditioning the state Capitol...
...Northeast or the Pacific Coast with special force the next. Polio may be concentrated in big cities as was the case in 1916's epidemic (the other contender for all-time worst); or else an equally large total number of cases may be spread over the corn counties...
...cost. Then he and his students began experimenting with feed, found that the blemished cull potatoes discarded by farmers could provide, when dried, 90% of a fat steer's diet. So a whole new industry grew up in Kern County. Instead of paying $65 a ton for corn and $42 for barley, local farmers now had a good substitute for only...
CANNED-FOOD prices are climbing higher because of smaller crops and slim carryover stocks from last year. Green Giant Co., Del Monte, Libby, Dole and other canners have already hiked pineapple prices 4%, asparagus 11%, peas, corn and peaches, plan similar hikes right down the line on many of their products...