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Today the real farm problem is over-storage, not overproduction. Despite a huge surplus-disposal program, the U.S. Government still holds 6,327,000 bales (a year's supply) of cotton, 913,000,000 bushels (a year's crop) of wheat, 657,703,000 bushels (three months' supply) of corn, and hoards of butter, cheese, dried milk, barley, beans, flaxseed, sorghum, oats, rice, rye, soybeans, honey, peanuts, tobacco, wool, winter cover crops, linseed oil, olive oil, tung-nut oil and whey. Except for these market-depressing surpluses, the consumption of U.S. farm products in 1955 would...
...Dana Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education, spoke to the group on the "Role of the School's Recommendations." He indicated the problems high school counselors have when alumni in areas far removed from the College are poorly informed about recent policies...
This afternoon, Henry and Dana Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education, will talk on the "Role of the Alumni Interviewer" and the "Role of the School's Recommendations" respectively. In the evening, Dean Bundy will speak to the group at a Boston Harvard Club dinner on "Something about Some Things...
Before World War II, Pecos was nothing but a dusty crossroads cattle town. Then some oil wells came in, and irrigation experiments on the bone-dry soil paid off so well that Pecos became a thriving cotton center (pop. 12,450). To pick the crop each year, Pecos depends mainly on the braceros-legally imported Mexican laborers who come north to work the season for free transportation, shelter and an average of $35 a week. This year the Baptist General Convention of Texas decided to do something about their souls as well as their bodies. With a team...
This week, as Preacher Hernandez and his Baptist crusaders moved north to Lubbock, where the cotton picking was just beginning, they claimed the results for their week's work: 1,062 conversions...