Word: farms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Bill. Comment: Still upon Congress lies the onus of not voting special taxes to meet special farm subsidies ($225,000,000 extra this year...
...That the tractor is as simple as a motorcar, can be maintained by any farm hand, operated by any schoolboy...
...Woodbury, L. I. did the late Otto Hermann Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree. Architects Delano & Aldrich built it for him 22 years ago-a towering, turreted, 100-room French chateau surrounded with gardens, stables, farm buildings, 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, landing field and woodlands on 441 rolling acres. It was conservatively assessed at $1,100,000 and in it Otto Kahn, international banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), art and opera patron, lived and entertained lavishly...
...Pared a separate two-year Relief appropriation from $73,000,000 to $35,500,000, loading it with amendments to make sure that Relief does not interfere with the supply of low-wage farm hands...
...katzelmacher (cat-eaters, so called because Bavarians suppose starving Italian field-hands steal and stew German cats). Every German woman was urged to go out on the land, help gather in the crops. It was estimated that at least 500,000 women of 60 years or more are doing farm labor in the Reich. Members of the Hitler Youth movement were commanded to volunteer their services. By drafting students, women, aliens, Nazis, with every available laborer under arms or building fortifications east or west, still hoped to gather in their vitally necessary harvest...