Word: fallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile millions of puzzled farmers felt the imperious stirrings of spring and wondered whether to let this or that field stand fallow on the chance the Government would pay them cash for reducing their crop, or to go ahead and plant their acres to the limit on the theory that the Senate's delay blotted out all hope of effective Federal...
Rented Acres. Another crop-cutting device, endorsed by Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, called for the Secretary of Agriculture to lease lands which farmers agreed to leave fallow. Previous estimates were to the effect that farmers would collect about $3 for every acre they left uncultivated, though the bill allowed the Secretary to set his own rental. Conceivably a shrewd farmer could rent enough of his land to the U. S. to remain idle all year...
...lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities to raise the $200,000,000 necessary to rent fallow fields...
...played on us somewhere. God put us in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people." says Patriarch Ty Ty, in a kind of final apology for the outrageous behavior of his children. Old Ty Ty was a Georgia cracker whose dusty little farm lay fallow while he and all his family dug in it for gold. Sometimes their faith wavered, but never Ty Ty's. Fifteen years he had been digging. When he heard that an albino was supposed to be a good divining-rod he went and roped one. After digging-hours...
...than the muscular activity involved in loosening the purse strings. Theatres, dances, movies, speakeasies, tabloids, all the conventional forms of amusement are at the beck and call of every man. His mind is a blank screen upon which no impressions are made; his intellect has been allowed to lie fallow for years. Beyond this there is the acceleration of every life. There is no relaxation, no tranquility, no time to take stock, and no stock to take. There is only the surpassing desire to make money with which to supply new creature comforts. And out of all this chaos comes...