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...knew when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry Wallace for Secretary of Agriculture, backed his crop-control program ("Plow the little pigs under"), persistently pushed parity payments onward & upward...
With Britain strapped, even this temporary agreement had been hard to reach. Finally, Canada agreed to leave the wheat contract as it stood, guaranteeing Britain 160 million bushels in the current crop year at $1.55 a bushel. For the rest, Britain would take less of other foodstuffs (e.g., cheese and bacon) at higher prices, generally about 15% above 1947 figures...
...carry the puck up to midice, then bat it down in the general vicinity of the enemy goal, with everyone but the goalie scrambling after it. More goals are made: scores now read 5 to 4 instead of 2 to 1. This season, with a postwar crop of hockey pros developing, the shinny style is more popular than ever...
...week's events made two points clear: 1) both Republicans and Democrats were a lot more worried about the political effect of what they said than they were about inflation; 2) if there is crop failure or a meat shortage next spring, the U.S. will have to go back to a partially controlled economy...
...anxious months, farmers had feared that the winter wheat crop would be close to a failure. Now the rains and snow of the last two weeks had changed all that. The 1948 yield would not come up to 1947's alltime record, but there was good reason to hope that about 90% of winter wheat acreage would at least be seeded. More than anybody else. Kansas farmers hoped for a white Christmas...