Word: crop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like an autumn gale the political winds swept through the U.S., stirred the blood of politicos in both parties, carried a week's heavy crop of political straws. Among the straws...
...price supports are based on 90% of the average selling price on the open market of the last three years, with a floor of 65% of parity. This year market prices are poor. Farm storage space is already so taxed that farmers will have to sell much of their crop in the open market at prices as low as 90? per bu., for the lack of a place to store it. Averaged over three years, the lower prices mean that a 4?-to-6? drop is possible next year in the price-support level...
Havana's egg business became exclusive property of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) because Castro is upset about overproduction and a drastic drop in prices. Farmers must sell their eggs at dictated prices to INRA, which will hold back part of the crop from market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar...
...never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio in France) became Pope before answering his plea for a splendid crop...
...week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson was asked what he thought of the agricultural-circle idea, responded that in the U.S. "we believe in the strength of the free market and of profit as a driving force in production." When a Polish journalist raised the question of the crop supports that produce the U.S.'s whopping annual food surpluses, Benson was obliged to make some embarrassing qualifications about the free market and subsidized U.S. agriculture. But nobody in Poland doubted for a moment that Wladyslaw Gomulka would cheerfully exchange his own farm problem for Ezra Benson...