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...dirt poor farmers met in a ratty, ramshackle cabin in Lampassas County, Texas, to discuss their future. Those men and women, the founders of what became The Farmers Alliance (the forerunner of the Populist movement of the '90's), were struggling to pry loose the ruinous grip of the crop lien system under which a banker could tell an indebted farmer whom to buy from, what to grow, and whom to sell to. As one of the men who had been at the Lampassas meeting said later, the farmers had come to forestall "the day... when all the balance...
...that most economies of scale can be achieved on a well-managed family farm. In California, the size of an optimally efficient farm ranged from 40 to 400 acres, in Kansas, from 180 to 570 acres, and in Montana, from 300 to 540 acres, depending on the type of crop grown. Under the present unenforced regulations a family of four could own 640 acres of fertile, federally irrigated land, more than enough for an efficient and productive farm...
...that more Poles be allowed to join their families in the U.S. Afterward Carter announced that the U.S. will provide Poland with $200 million in credits to buy food and feed grains-in addition to an earlier $300 million deal-to help make up for four years of Polish crop failures...
Henry Geldzahler, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on his appointment as New York City commissioner of cultural affairs: "The job is like that of commissioner of wheat in Kansas and spices in India, in that culture is our best crop...
...their workaday jobs and Roman Catholic guilts, we see a mindless explosion of pent-up energy that is almost frighteningly hedonistic. The characters become cruel and volatile beneath the strobe lights, and it seems that Saturday Night Fever has an authentic statement to make about America's newest crop of alienated youth...