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...bigger farms with far greater capital investment. Since 1940, average investment per farm in the U.S. has increased eightfold, from $6,000 to $48,000. As a result of the combined workings of science and investment, it takes only 15 man-hours of labor to produce 100 bushels of corn in the U.S. today, as against 135 man-hours half a century...
Created during the Great Depression, the support-control system is much the same as it was in the New Deal days, only bigger and more complicated. In its current operations, the Agriculture Department uses a device called "crop loans" to support prices of wheat, cotton, rice, tobacco, peanuts, corn, oats, rye, barley, and a few other storable crops. Within certain restrictions, a farmer has a right to place all or part of his crop in certified storage and get a Commodity Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop...
...disposal efforts, the CCC still has so much produce that the handling and storage costs alone amount to roughly a billion dollars a year. The CCC's inventories (not counting the farm products stored under current crop loans (include 972 million bu. of wheat, 712 million bu. of corn, 4.7 million bales of cotton, 484 million Ibs. of dried milk...
...there in the plane, talking and munching factory-made fried potato chips. They were nutritious and tasty. And they are cheap." Khrushchev's plug for cornflakes was equally enthusiastic. Many people in the U.S. and Britain, he reported, happily breakfast on "vitaminized flakes of corn which are eaten with milk." Unfortunately, he added, "we consume corn in niggardly amounts because industry does not produce the foods we need...
Catching the spirit, Izvestia made one final suggestion: Russians should eat more popcorn-called "air corn" by the Soviets. "The Americans love it. Children and adults enjoy it. They sell small packages in theaters, railroad stations and airports." Soviet families would love it also, said the newspaper, which helpfully gave detailed instructions on how to grow hybrid corn for popping...