Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shrugged our shoulders when we have seen cotton run up & down the scale between 4½? and 28?; wheat run down & up the scale between $1.50 and 30?; corn, hogs, cattle, potatoes, rye, peaches-all of them fluctuating from month to month and from year to year in mad gyrations which, of necessity, have left the growers of them speculators against their will. . . . We sought to stop the rule of tooth & claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil...
...profited heavily from the Depression. It is they and their henchmen who are doing their best to foment city people against the farmer and the farm program. It is that type of political profiteer who seeks to discredit the vote in favor of a continued corn-hog program by comparing your desire for a fair price for the farmer to the appetite of hogs for corn. . . . "The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to deal swiftly with kidnappers, gangsters and racketeers. That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to save innocent...
...cotton and corn-hog restriction programs for next year were last week announced by AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis. Their prime points...
...Farmers must agree to reduce their cotton plantings 30% to 45% below "normal," their corn plantings 10% to 30%. They need not reduce the number of hogs they raise, must merely agree not to raise more than the normal number. So that AAA cannot in future be charged with paying men for raising nothing whatever, cotton farmers must raise at least 50% of their normal crop, corn farmers 25%, hog raisers...
...left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could not compromise himself artistically for a client. He built a Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Just before the War he began putting up small banks in the Corn Belt. They remain among the finest things from his drafting board. The one at Sidney, Ohio, erected in 1917, had airconditioning...