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...down trend cut across every major population group, but the largest defection was right where it could be expected: among farmers. Although the prices of dairy products and basic crops, e.g., wheat, are supported by the Federal Government, drought and falling livestock prices have brought a great outcry from the farm belt. Farm income has been generally falling since 1947, but that fact does not cool the farmer's ire in 1953. Shrill cries of protest have arisen, and they are directed at one man: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson...
Early the next morning the President and the governors got down to the serious business of the drought at a breakfast-table conference (see below). There was no letup in the breakneck schedule. After the conference, Ike flew to Salina, Kans. and a triumphant homecoming to Abilene. For 40 miles around, the schools had been let out for the occasion, and cheering kids and high-school bands lined the streets as the presidential motorcade flashed by. At his old home, Ike spotted some pink and purple cornflowers in the garden. They reminded him of his mother, so he picked...
...drought is having an economic impact that reaches far beyond the farm. Throughout southwest Missouri, farm-implement sales have dwindled, sales of cars, television and radio sets have almost stopped. Every line of business has felt the slump...
...green Tea Room of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel one morning last week, Dwight Eisenhower sat down with the governors of twelve states to work on a crucial problem: drought. Almost every state in the U.S. has been affected, one way or another, by 1953's hot, dry weather. The first state in which dryness turned to drought and drought turned to disaster was Texas (TIME, July 6). By last week, sections of 13 states* had been declared disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Missouri, where the President and the governors met to attack the problem...
Although the cattle population of 94 million is the greatest in U.S. history, there were few signs of overproduction, and there were no demands for price supports until the drought in the Southwest forced ranchers to dump their cattle on the market and collapse prices...