Word: daviess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vote for Less? Everywhere, the farmers' reasons for voting yes were basically the same: a yes vote meant a support price of $2.20 a bushel with quotas; a no vote meant $1.20 without them. In Washington, Ind., where Daviess County farmers marked ballots in the stone courthouse, windburned Norman Lawyer (who has 136 acres of wheat) asked a basic question: "Why should any farmer vote to cut the wheat price support in half?" Said Tom Graham, who plants 600 acres of wheat on his 3,000-acre farm north of Washington: "If wheat price supports fell...
Self-Conscious. In Washington, Ind., the county poor farm made $1,386 profit from the first month's production of its nine oil wells, changed its name to the Daviess County Home...