Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Midwest: "As was the case in the South under the cotton program, small towns in the corn-hog belt are feeling the first effect of the corn-hog benefit payments and improved farm prices. From the smaller towns, the money percolates in a steady and increasing stream to the larger trade centres...
...presidential landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...
...farmers in 16 states who had already received $119,000,000 and would receive some $200,000,000 more for reducing corn-hog production, AAA sent ballots asking if they favored continuance of the plan. Five hundred thousand, or just over 40% of them, answered. Nebraska and Kansas turned thumbs down. But Iowa was 3-to-1 in favor of more control and more Federal money. Mighty Texas, recipient of more agricultural benefits than any other state, voted 9-to-1 for continuance. Total vote was favorable 2-to-1. "But if we are going to have a real economic...
Drought and AAA slashed the 1934 corn crop to 56% its normal volume, with a relative decrease in pork production. According to Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, Department of Agriculture economist, pork prices have risen so high that a national "consumers' strike" is now on. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics foresees still higher prices for chickens, eggs...
...federal money at the rate of half a billion dollars a month. Whether or not the government may hold up its hands in horror at the accusation of using national funds for political purposes, the result of the vast expenditures remains the same. Public projects for the unemployed, corn-hog payments for the dissatisfied farmers, ever increasing relief funds are more formidable votegetters than reams of political speeches...