Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vetoed. Then 1958's farm prosperity (TIME, May 12) began splitting the congressional farm bloc: the House refused even to consider a wild, catchall Democratic farm bill, and the Senate passed a strong bill which would 1) significantly lower price supports, and 2) loosen acreage controls for corn, cotton, rice and grains. Benson pronounced himself satisfied with the Senate bill-and fought to keep the House from diluting it. Speaker Sam Rayburn got mad at Benson's persistence, refused to force the farm bill to the floor. Unless Rayburn changes his mind, the 85th Congress rates a barely...
...Joseph's Mercy Hospital at Pontiac, Mich., a receptionist glanced up one night last week to see "a zombie" stagger hunched and stiff-legged through the main door. The man wore shoes, socks, and a checked cotton bathrobe; his body was charred, his eyes swollen, his mouth puffy. "Can you get me to the emergency room?" he groaned. As doctors gave him blood and plasma but no hope, the man insisted he was "John Doe from Washington," would say no more...
...huts, has built a $21 million dam across the Niger River, on top of which lie the tracks for the still nonexistent Trans-Saharan Railroad (the railroad station is currently being used as an office building). The Office has reclaimed more than 108,000 acres of desert where cotton and rice can now grow, hopes eventually to have 2,000,000 acres under cultivation...
...crop is raised and sold. Beginning with parity-inflated market prices, the new formula would let prices slip by easy stages until, says Benson, the law of supply and demand begins to take over and surpluses begin to sell. Props are to move toward market levels for corn, cotton, rice and feed grains (oats, rye, barley and grain sorghums). Wheat, tobacco and peanuts, as well as milk, still have separate programs, a more-or-less deliberate tactic that helps Benson keep the once powerful farm bloc divided...
...area failed to prosper. Producers of livestock and livestock products took in $9.1 billion in the first half of this year for what actually was a smaller quantity of meat, poultry and dairy products than they sent to market in January-June 1957. Even the surplus-ridden wheat, cotton, corn and other crop producers managed to boost sales by 10% to $4.7 billion. In some states the increase in farmers' cash receipts was nearly 100%. Texas farmers, from January through May, took in $704 million v. $489 million in 1957. Nebraska cash receipts jumped from $339 million...