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...pasturage. Now he can plant it to anything he pleases, except the major crops, potatoes and a small list of commercial vegetables. Benson expected that most of the decontrolled acreage would be planted to feed grains and forage crops, which farmers badly need, especially in areas hit by drought and heat...
...Five Southern states (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina) are designated drought disaster areas. Farmers in those states will get increased subsidies for purchase of Government-owned feed for livestock...
...local effects. Example: Missouri's Fourth District, which lies half in suburban Kansas City and half in adjoining farm country. There, Republican Incumbent Jeffrey P. Hillelson's troubles are caused more by the elements than by the Eisenhower farm program. The district has been hard hit by drought, and in the Fourth District of Missouri, the incumbent Congressman has a hard time explaining away bad weather...
Challenge in Manila. Back in drought-ridden Delhi, Nehru explained that his parable referred to the Chinese Communists, whom he compared with a "river of history." "One cannot stop a river, though one can build a canal," he told the Indian Press Association. "One should...
...Rainbow Division. The marriage lasted only eight years, possibly, friends say, because even in its happiest days Alicia was still closer to her father than to her husband. Wherever he went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York's fast social life, she regularly did the rounds of raucous nightclubs and the more discreet Park Avenue and Long Island parties...