Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The "Advocate" held a preliminary contest among students and submitted the best stories to three members of the English Department faculty for final winnowing. They chose two stories, which the magazine submitted as its entry in the national competition.
Pasturage for everybody began to look lusher a year ago. State laws had failed to bring order into the shed, but interstate control by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ended price-cutting competition from the six outlying States. So last year New York State's dairy farmers held...
But they soon found Federal control was complex and hard to understand. It also brought into the milkshed a formularized way of figuring milk prices: the "blended price." Milk was classified by the use to which it was put-from $2.25 per cwt. for Class I (bottled milk) down to...
Three old men of the prairie bestride the back of U. S. agricultural economy: Corn, Wheat and Cotton. Of these the most corpulent is Cotton. At the end of the cotton marketing year on July 31 the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau set out to measure him. Last...
Henry Wallace's Department of Agriculture winced at the facts. The Department of Commerce reported that only 3,327,000 bales of the 1938-39 crop were exported, a 60-year low, 40.6% less than the previous year, 69.4% less than the high of the 20s (10,927,000...