Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the U. S. Government was by way of becoming the biggest grocer of all time. Youngish (39) former cotton-bag-maker Milo Randolph Perkins, head of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, announced immediate expansion of the New Deal's orange-&-blue food stamp plan to Birmingham, Des Moines, Shawnee, Okla...
...further possibility that the plan may be extended to include cotton textile products last week excited cotton...
Soon after Henry Wallace tackled the farm problem in 1933 with AAA, the God of Drought came to his aid. Drought as well as subsidy and legal restriction reduced wheat surpluses, corn surpluses, even cotton surpluses. But three years ago Drought began to withdraw its assistance. This year Drought turned its attention (selectively) to the Northeastern States: May was bone dry and July was desert (until rains came last week) and both did plenty of damage to truck and fruit crops. But eastern Drought did not reduce the crops that are Mr. Wallace's big problems...
...third year in succession he has a major surplus to fight. Last year wheat was the most acute headache, year before it was cotton, this year corn. This week he had to face the music. On August 1 came due the loans of 57? a bushel which he made to farmers who put under seal part of their last year's crop...
Wheat and cotton are cash crops. Not so, corn. Nearly nine out of ten bushels are used to feed hogs and livestock. The lower the price, the more feed for hogs; the more hogs, the lower the price of pork. With corn at 40? there should be many pigs in 1940. If next spring's pig crop reaches 80,000,000 little grunters, pigs and pork prices will nosedive, and Washington will have still another quota on its hands...