Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HELP THE FARMER SELL HIS SURPLUS CROP-PEA BEANS...
...association of 51 agricultural co-operative groups with a membership of 1,500,000 farmers. Out of the meeting grew several policies, one of which was an agreement by the chain stores to stage special sales campaigns whenever the farmers were stuck with a bona fide surplus of any crop...
...fact, plus droughts and increasing mechanization of agriculture, he continued, means that the pinch is now being felt among many farm groups, an example being some 300 sharecropping families in Lee County, Texas who "are literally in danger of starvation as every penny of their share of the cotton crop has been required to pay their debts to the land-lords." Ordinarily, said Secretary Wallace, the landlords would carry the sharecroppers until next summer, but because of low cotton prices the landlords are almost as badly off themselves. "Local agencies, likewise, are utterly unable to provide any kind of relief...
Deprived of their international market by crop reduction, "the new isolated farmers will be very impoverished unless they turn to Fascism and wreck the country in order to get their relative position back," he said...
...still be subordinate to Mr. Eden, advising the Foreign Secretary only on request, but the terms of the new appointment show that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intends to use Sir Robert much as President Roosevelt uses Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to, handle big diplomatic jobs wherever they crop...