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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded fine. Market prices on perishables would be allowed to drop to their natural level, thereby pleasing the consumers. The Government would pay the difference to the farmer, giving him higher subsidies than he now got, thereby tickling the farmer too. And yet all this probably wouldn't cost the taxpayer any more than the present farm program because the Department of Agriculture would so skillfully estimate crop needs and so carefully rig subsidy prices that the nation's 4,801,000 farmers, bribed or bridled into obeying, would grow only the amount" needed (that is, if nature...
...Young to Die." The auto workers, like the steelworkers, were concentrating on pensions and welfare benefits. The demands on Ford would total 40? to 44? an hour, including a cost-of-living increase (about 10?), and, more important, 8% for health insurance, 24? for pensions...
...cheapest grade of cooking oil shot up from 17? to 38? a liter (current Manhattan price: 47? a qt.). In Buenos Aires good sirloin steak that had cost 18? a Ib. the day before sold for 28? (Manhattan price: 79?). A housewives' group called on Congressmen, persuaded anti-Perón deputies to introduce a resolution to investigate the high cost of living...
Stake in the Future. Kilometer 47's most ardent booster, Cornell-trained Dr. Alvaro Fagundes, director of Brazil's agricultural research, is well aware that the school's policy of refusing to compromise its high standards has some drawbacks. The cost of operation is high, entrance examinations extremely stiff, the student body relatively small. But Fagundes also knows that, in any case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing...
Richards cleared the land of trees, used his engineer's training to build it up with chemical fertilizers. He rigged pipes through it, brought in two 100-h.p. pumps to sprinkle it with 1,000 gallons of water a minute from a nearby pond. His only cost was gasoline for the pumps, labor to move the sprinklers, a total of only $10 to $15 per acre a season. This year, when drought withered the crops of thousands of New England farmers, Richards' well-watered acres flourished...