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Only a few years ago, the nation's proliferating surpluses of wheat and corn seemed as immutable as original sin. Today, thanks to the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act-the Food for Peace program -the U.S. has whittled the hoard to less burdensome levels by simply selling, bartering and giving away $14 billion worth of surplus food and fiber in eleven years. In 1964 alone, Food for Peace shipments totaled $1.7 billion, one-third of all U.S. foreign...
...brilliant plant geneticist whose hybridizations left his fellow Americans with infinitely improved strains of corn, juicier, hardier strawberries, and hens that would lay more eggs on less feed. Only last March he was in the Dominican Republic trying to introduce strawberries as a badly needed cash crop...
...Husking Willkie. Republican by inheritance and initial choice, Wallace was the son of Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge, ran the prosperous family weekly Wallace's Farmer (motto: "Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living") and the Hi-Bred (a play on hybrid) Corn Co. Believing, correctly, that the farm depression would drag down the entire economy, he later enlisted in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first brain trust. Wallace wrote F.D.R.'s farm plank in 1932. Then he assumed the herculean task of implementing it as Agriculture Secretary during the first two Roosevelt administrations...
...instinctive isolationism, Roosevelt-who was anxious in any case to dump curmudgeonly old John Nance Garner as his two-term Vice President-chose his Agriculture Secretary for the vice-presidential nomination. To party strategists, Henry Wallace was the only man who could out-husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb. But he also made many important...
...which forced the penniless natives to go to work for the settlers to pay it. But the settlers worked beside them in the fields and gradually adopted a paternal feeling toward them. New settlers poured in, built themselves Victorian towns and sturdy houses, and planted mealies (corn) and tobacco on the veld. When more land was needed, the natives were moved off, until in 1928 the officials decided something had to be done to protect them. The result was the Land Apportionment Act, which set aside roughly half of the countryside as "native reserves"-but also prohibited the blacks from...