Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what mainly caused that long, discouraging decline? One thing only: political expediency in Washington, D.C. . . . And what were the results? For one, Uncle Sam himself took up farming. Synthetic farmers behind Washington desks started telling farmers all over again what crops to plant, how much to grow ... the prices to charge. You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield . . . The value of the Government stockpile of farm surpluses climbed to $9 billion. The cost of storage alone has been $1,000,000 a day-none...
...months . . . We freed peacetime agriculture from programs designed for war. We eliminated Stirling wartime controls. We attacked the menacing surpluses-head-on. We regained many of the lost markets. We helped the lowest-income people in agriculture. We brought social security for the first time to operators of family farms. We refunded to farmers the $60 million-a-year federal tax on farm gasoline. We started the great St. Lawrence Seaway project-the 30-year dream of Midwestern farm families . . . And we turned prices back up-without...
...have two things to say about this beginning. First, the old price-depressing Democratic farm program stayed in effect right up to harvest last year . . . Eighty-five per cent of the price decline after the Korean war inflation came while rigid price supports were still in effect. Our opponents today are criticizing the mess that they themselves left behind...
...Democratic farm program as outlined by Candidate Adlai Stevenson in speeches at Newton, Iowa and Oklahoma City...
...whose life has been lived in a vast corporation do not see a disaster like the drought as a human problem. They see farms and livestock only as statistics. As a result, relief is grudging and reluctant, too much red tape, too little real help-and always too late . . . Many of you here [at Oklahoma City] today are farmers. You have had particular reason to feel the neglect and the indifference of a big-business administration. For three years the Republican leaders watched farm prices fall with philosophical calm. This is the nice, polite way of saying they did nothing...