Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government should help the sugar industry meet foreign competition. The Administration favors direct subsidies; this would keep down prices to housewives and big consumers (including Coca-Cola, which is headed by Carter's old friend J. Paul Austin). But subsidizing low-priced sugar reduces demand for corn fructose. Congress favors sugar import duties and quotas, which would raise prices and help producers of both sugar and corn sweeteners...
Since then, charge Congressmen, sugar growers and corn fructose producers, the Administration has dragged its feet in implementing the amendment. Tariffs were not imposed until November, and even then there were big loopholes that allowed foreign sugar to flood the U.S. market in December (TIME, March...
...January the corn fructose makers sued the Agriculture Department, charging that the agency had violated Congress's intent by not moving fast enough on the 1977 law. The plaintiffs then began a search of Government files for incriminating evidence. The lawyers asked for 20 documents that the Agriculture and Justice departments insisted on having reviewed by White House officials to determine whether they should be withheld on grounds of Executive privilege. They included presidential memorandums and minutes of Cabinet meetings. Since March the corn growers' lawyers have been asking about the status of the documents. Last week they...
Like almost all U.S. farmers, the cattleman is aggrieved. For four years the prices that he collects have buckled like a sick calf, while the costs of everything he buys-gasoline, fertilizer, tetracycline for ailing heifers, tractors from Peoria and bull semen from France-have climbed like corn in August. And just when he had started to make a comeback, a politically motivated peanut farmer from Georgia cut him off at the knees by letting in a lot of imports...
...scene was Honan, a province about the size of Missouri, but inhabited by 32 million peasants who grew wheat, corn, millet, soybeans, and cotton. Honan was a fine flat plain whose soil was a powdered, yellow loess which, when wet with rain, oozed with fertility. And which, when the rains did not come, grew nothing; then the peasants died. The rains had not come in 1942, and by 1943, Honan peasants, we heard in Chungking, were dying...