Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill. Thus propelled from the 75th Congress was the third major Farm Bill of the Roosevelt Administration, aimed at regulating the production and prices of the U. S. four major crops-wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco-also rice. Three major types of legislation provided models: the voluntary crop control insured by the first AAA through loans and benefit payments; the compulsory control enforced by penalties for overproduction introduced in the Bankhead Cotton Act and .the Tobacco Act; the voluntary reduction of soil-depleting acreage to encourage which the Government paid farmers $500,000,000 a year under the Soil Conservation...
...board indulges in other activities for which it receives no stipend: e.g., the annual selection of outstanding films and performances. In this unsubsidized function, the board says what it thinks. Of 1937's pretentious crop, it found unpretentious Night Must Fall the best. Of 20 films mentioned, ten were foreign-made. Leading the performers was French Harry Bauer, in the Prague-made The Golem; high up was Soviet Nikolai Cherkassov (Baltic Deputy). Hollywood's 14-year-old Jackie Cooper made the list; the industry's 1937 darling, Mr. Paul Muni...
...John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...nation-wide scale for the first time only a month before the conference between farmers and chains. California cling peach growers found themselves with a carry over from 1935 of 6,469,000 cases of canned peaches, 72% more than the previous year. With a big 1936 crop impending, it appeared that peach prices might drop to $15 per ton, substantially less than the cost of production. Growers appealed to the chains. Ted Braun and National Association of Food Chains' Vice President John A. Logan made careful but speedy preparations, and 34,000 chain stores staged a four-week...
Campaigns have also been made for turkeys, walnuts, dried fruit, apples, avocados, eggs. In many of them independent stores have also played a part. This year campaigns have already been planned for eggs, rice, potatoes. Because the 1937 bean crop is 23% greater than the 1928-32 norm, chain-store house organs last week sloganed: "Make America bean appreciative." Said Printers' Ink: "These campaigns have demonstrated that farm relief can be practical. . . . Here is a partnership of producers and distributors that has brought producers and consumers closer together, with a taste of prosperity for the farmer, but, unlike taxes...