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...stress than Kennedy on increasing consumption, Nixon called for a "crash agricultural-research program" to find "new industrial and other uses for our farm products." In Operation Consume, drawing on the old more meat, less bread approach to the surplus problem, Nixon had urged a program for converting surplus grains into protein foods. Under this program, farmers would get grain from the Government to feed to livestock and poultry; the meat, milk and eggs produced would be channeled into foreign and domestic giveaway programs. The farmer would get his compensation in additional surplus grain, to sell...
...Setting up a "barter" system by which farmers would be paid out of present surpluses for keeping part of their acreage idle; farmers could then sell or feed to livestock the surplus grain they received...
...urgent study of methods for converting excess grain into low-cost protein foods, e.g. canned meat, powdered milk and eggs, for distribution at home and abroad...
...first decisions as president was to assign 20 engineers to work on automating the canning industry, traditionally resistant to technological advance because of the necessity of hand-sorting of foodstuffs. Campbell's engineers devised an electronic sorter for rice grain, another for vegetables. To preserve the reputation for quality of Campbell products year in and year out, Murphy's tasting boards check soups and other foods coming off the production line in Campbell's nine major U.S. plants every hour of the day. At 11 a.m. the manager and his executive assistants at each plant pause...
...balloon structures can be built in half a day, need only an ordinary building fan to keep them inflated, will last five to ten years. Quonset-shaped, the Schjel-dome will work in the arctic or the tropics, can be used for garages and greenhouses, swimming pool covers and grain warehouses, is repaired with a hot iron...