Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freeman & Freedom...
ORVILLE L. FREEMAN...
Should the Freeman plan be rejected, we would all be forced into a race to produce more wheat in order to protect ourselves against the drop in price which would certainly follow. This would loose such an avalanche of overproduction that Congress might well be inclined to pass more stringent controls than ever before. The farmer would indeed find that his short-lived freedom from the frying pan had landed him smack dab in the fire...
...starvation, and as I myself have felt the pangs of hunger on several occasions during the last World War, I pray the Lord that this great country, which is offering me hospitality, may forever be faced with the "dismal prospect" [of the biggest harvest in history! with which Mr. Freeman has to deal at present...
Hamrick, 44. wanted to expand his links to 18 holes, but he lacked capital to buy more land. To the rescue came that openhanded giant, the federal Agriculture Department. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman has adopted a policy of helping marginal family farmers convert some of their land to recreation uses. That approach, Freeman hopes, will both make a dent in farm surpluses and enable some poor farmers to earn a better living. Congress has obliged by broadening the lending authority of the Farmers Home Administration. When Hamrick read about that in a local paper, he sent in an application...