Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Country people are often reluctant to confide in strangers, but their alarm is such that Willard Treu, a wheat, milo and corn grower, rushed up to TIME Correspondent Barbara Dolan when he heard her asking about farm problems at the John Deere store in Quinter, Kans. "I'm scared," he said. "I'm 61 years old and 41 years a farmer, and this is the worst time I've been through...
...which would replace the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 that expires next Sept. 30, would sharply pare back subsidies over the next five years. It would slash price-support levels and phase out payments that now bolster the earnings of producers of such major commodities as wheat and corn. In addition, it would cut federal outlays to growers who are paid to leave their land fallow in order to hold down the supply of crops and thus keep prices firm...
...knows how to keep this stuff moving, if not how to make it moving. Here is a story ripped from today's headlines--BAD TIMES FOR THE SMALL FARMER--filmed in a style of roseate elegy. Everything is romanticized, from Mom biting into the season's first ear of corn to Junior eating Oreos on the cab of the family flatbed truck as God's sun sets behind him. Gibson's baby-faced doggedness and Spacek's ingratiating freckles suit them more for roles as college quarterback and star cheerleader than for hardscrabblers against calamity. But the Hallmark glow...
Just everything goes wrong for Farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) and his ever- sufferin' wife Mae (Sissy Spacek). The local river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
...made his successful run for a Senate seat. The Republicans were able to seize it as Jim Ross Lightfoot, 46, a conservative former radio broadcaster, defeated Democrat Jerry Fitzgerald, 43, a former state representative. Farm issues dominated the campaign in the rural area of cattle ranchers and wheat and corn growers. Reagan had visited the district to help Lightfoot...