Word: farmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was not so much a challenge to the efficiency of the big farms (see BUSINESS) as it was to the insanity of the U.S.'s farm price-support program as now administered...
...took a good look at the results of last November's Democratic landslide, Michigan Farmer Stanley Yankus Jr. decided to give up his five-year battle against federal crop controls. "The men who were elected to Congress this time," he told his wife Mildred, "would not change these farm laws-they're all for subsidies." So Farmer Yankus applied to Australia ("the least socialistic country in the world")* for an immigration permit and, having won it, last week on his 40th birthday asked the U.S. State Department to issue passports to himself, his wife and their three children...
Before he can leave the U.S., Yankus must sell his100-acre farm near Dowagiac in southwestern Michigan, finish paying off $4,562 in penalties levied against him in court by the U.S. Government. His offense: raising for his 5,000 chickens more wheat than he was allowed under the average-quota system...
...never allowed to vote on the quota issue himself, because farmers with less than 15 acres of wheat were barred from the referendum; 4) does not believe in the farm support program as a matter of principle...
...Salvador could use some capital infusion. The Massachusetts-sized country on the Pacific Coast of Central America still derives 60% of its export income from big coffee plantations owned mostly by a handful of rich old families. The farm wage has not yet topped 60? a day for the illiterate Indian masses, who are trucked to the polls every six years to vote their approval of the planters' latest officer-candidate for President. The head count of 2,400,000 citizens ranks El Salvador as the most crowded nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality...