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Some Mormon unemployed will be put to work on fertile but fallow acreage to raise beets and truck crops for refineries and canneries, the profits to be distributed to the needy in cash and kind. Other jobless Mormons will be put to work on a church-building program, cost of which will be shared between localities and a national Mormon fund. This fund is to be swelled by contributions from solvent Mormons who will be expected to abstain from at least two meals on one Sunday each month (minimum estimated cost: 5? per meal). Mormons who have been slack about...
...Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
...current congress was Texas' Wright Patman's perennial measure to pay the soldiers' bonus in cash at once. This form of generosity involved $2,400,000,000, not from cash on hand, but in greenbacks. The Ways & Means Committee allowed the bill to lie fallow because 1) the House, as it did during the last Congress, would pass it if it got a chance; 2) the Administration, busy borrowing billions of dollars, did not want to frighten the country with greenbackery...
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...