Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Radcliffe has come out in favor of the new hair crop. "I rather like the new hair styles, but I can't figure out why," stated Sue Smart '52. Not Kathy Greenman '53, however, who explained "I've always wanted to be a boy anyway...
Then Hugo Sims cocked a campaigner's ear for his own education. Stout, grey Mayor Angelo Stoudermire, a clerk in Rickenbacker's store, talked about what Sims already knew-how the failure of the local cotton crop had hit hard. "When the small farmers get hit," said Angelo, "it hurts the stores most. The big farmers don't buy any more in hard times than in good." Jesse Huggins, a spare man in old Army clothes, who had been picking pecans until Sims drove up, didn't think much of the Fair Deal. "We call...
...years, when the big crop of war babies has grown and proliferated, the U.S. population will have risen to 175 million, expanding the labor force to at least 72,500,000 men & women...
There was one new condition: farmers would have to accept marketing quotas on their crops if they wanted full support. There were other new features: price support for "certain non-basic" commodities -wool, tung nuts, honey, Irish potatoes and dairy products, including whole milk -were made permanent at levels up to 90%. Furthermore, the Secretary was "authorized" to support any other commodity he wanted. Even perishable fruit & vegetables will get some of his bounty-the bill set aside approximately $100 million a year from custom revenues so that truck farmers could get in on the grab. ^ Farmers had long expressed...
...even face some increases at her butcher's, and on her milk bill.