Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honestus: That's right. Despite very extensive controls, administered by thousands of Agriculture Department bureaucrats, farmers have dumped so much wheat, corn, cotton, cheese and other commodities on the Government that it costs the taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year just to keep the stuff in storage. Last year the Agriculture Department spent something like $7 billion, largely for price-support programs. That was more than twice the combined expenditures of the State, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor departments all put together...
...large segments of U.S. agriculture-meat, poultry, fruits, most vegetables-get along all right without price supports or controls. Secretary Freeman wants to extend production controls to some of these still free products, but so far Congress has fought him off. The main supported crops are wheat, feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums, barley-so called because they are grown mainly for livestock feed), cotton, tobacco and dairy products. Price supports are also in effect for some relatively minor crops, including rice and peanuts...
...Right Kind of Corn. On the stump, he pumps hands, slaps backs, signs auto graphs and shouts greetings - "Hi sweetie . . . wonderful to be here . . . this is very exciting . . . thanks a thousand." His campaign speeches are repetitious and full of homilies, but they drum home the watchwords of his administration: fiscal integrity, pay-as-you-go, schools, jobs, housing, equal opportunity. When in the midst of crowds, he winks, grins, furrows his brow in endless contortions, seeming to say to perfect strangers: "I'm with you. I understand. You've gotten through to me." Recently, he donned a cowboy...
State Fair. This remake of a remake of a remake may not win any Oscars, but durned if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum stars Zero Mostel as a Roman slave in a racy adaptation of the plays of Plautus. Classic vaudeville and burlesque routines give this musical a high hilarity quotient, and six near nudettes prance appealingly amid the golden corn...