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...order to make his best contribution," said he, "every farmer should divert as much wheat land as practicable to crops more urgently needed . . . soybeans, flax and various feed crops." He told them that storing the colossal wheat surplus (tying up, among other things, thousands of bins made of precious steel) is already a terrible headache. He begged them to keep all the wheat they could on the farm and to market as much more as possible in the form of livestock and poultry...
...Wickard's plea will be supplemented by a rash of posters, radio plugs and personal exhortations from county agents to wheat planters. By fall the campaign may also be supported by some good, hard cash in the form of incentive prices (still undetermined) for crops like soybeans and flax that are sorely needed...
...other peasants were doing throughout Russia: fighting a desperate battle of food. The 1942 harvest was in full swing. In southern Russia wheat-threshing machines hummed within earshot of tank battles. Near Stalingrad harvesters toiled around the clock to bring in ripened grain before the Nazi blight grew closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened to free mothers for tractor-driving...
...will overtake cotton; peanuts have already outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...
...labor trouble." He has a closed A.F. of L. shop in his 800-man shipbuilding plant in Duluth, a closed C.I.O. shop in his nearby Klearflax Linen Looms, Inc. (which not only makes linen rugs but, for three years, has enriched itself with a new process for treating coarse flax fiber for cigaret paper). What's more, he believes the closed shop is the best way for an employer to avoid "a fighting, quarreling type of labor leadership...