Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has been happening to the farmer is a painful but not yet critical adjustment from a decade in which a voracious, war-stimulated world appetite demanded all the food that the U.S. could produce at whatever price the buyer had to pay. Since 1951, when war demand pushed farm income close to its alltime peak, gross farm income in the U.S. has dropped 11%. Because the cost of what the farmers buy has gone up in that period, they have been caught in a squeeze that has pushed net farm income down 27%. But another factor has tended...
...policy of supporting farm prices at 90% of parity was inaugurated in 1942 to encourage maximum production of food to fill the wartime demand. In the present situation, the logical aim is exactly the opposite-to encourage less, not more production. The greatest drag on the farm economy in 1955 was created by 90% of parity, which encouraged too much production after war demand ended. The result was a $7 billion glut of farm products hanging over the market. When it was encouraging the building of these burdensome surpluses, the 90% parity plan did not keep prices...
...popularity policy soccer's status as a minor sport is unjust. All the team's opponents, except Cornell, have soccer as a major sport. Yet if the H.A.A. wishes to be consistent, it can not make soccer major without also elevating cross country. As long as both sports demand a similar amount of time, skill, and hard work from players, their status should be the same...
...chaplains at both its Vicksburg, Miss, and Longview, Tex. plants for on-the-job spiritual guidance; the chaplains also hold weekly services which 85% of the workers attend. Tulsa's Sunray-Mid Continent Oil Co. has employed a chaplain since 1947, and his advice is so heavily in demand that he will soon get a second assistant. The story is the same at San Diego's Solar Aircraft, Dallas' John E. Mitchell Co., Dearborn Stove Co., Ohio's Pioneer Rubber Co. At Solar Aircraft, the program was so well liked that everyone from assistant plant managers...
Behind the price boost lay the voracious U.S. appetite for newsprint, whetted by growing newspaper circulation (up 1,300,000 since 1950) and a 10% upsurge in advertising linage over 1954. U.S. demand for newsprint in the first nine months of 1955 has run 7.8% ahead of last year's level, highest in history, even though newsprint prices have soared since World War II from $50 to $127 a ton. Some smaller publishers have been forced to pay $50-a-ton premiums for newsprint on the flourishing grey market...