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With its farm bill consigned to cold storage, the Administration hurriedly submitted to the House a substitute measure merely extending Secretary Freeman's current, noncompulsory grain program, under which producers of wheat and feed grains get special payments for cutting back on their acreage planted to these crops. The high support prices and the enormous surpluses remain...
...large segments of U.S. agriculture-meat, poultry, fruits, most vegetables-get along all right without price supports or controls. Secretary Freeman wants to extend production controls to some of these still free products, but so far Congress has fought him off. The main supported crops are wheat, feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums, barley-so called because they are grown mainly for livestock feed), cotton, tobacco and dairy products. Price supports are also in effect for some relatively minor crops, including rice and peanuts...
...correspondence between the Senators and the department going back to 1953. No such examination was made of the files on the three subcommittee Democrats. Thomas R. Hughes, Freeman's executive assistant, admitted ordering the search, but insisted that it was only to review points of the grain-storage program of particular interest to the Senators. But Mundt and Curtis hinted at darker motives: "It was most unusual and reprehensible that the two Republican members were singled out in an effort to try to find some correspondence that might be twisted or distorted to create implications not substantiated...
Offering the shakiest sort of financial credits. Billie Sol still sold Commercial Solvents on a curious deal: over the ensuing years, the company supplied Estes with an estimated $12.7 million worth of the anhydrous ammonia fertilizer-getting back to date some $7.000,000 in Estes' revenues for grain stored in Billie Sol's grain elevators under federal programs. Estes "paid"-and little cash was involved-as much as $90 a ton to Commercial Solvents for its chemical manure, then sold the stuff to West Texas farmers for as little...
...huskily built, aggressive and imaginative surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded that a minute organ buried in the fork of an artery in the neck, and no bigger than a grain of rice, is an important element in breathing control. Discovered in 1743, it is called the carotid body, or glomus caroticum*; there is one on each side of the neck...