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...paid twice-once in high prices over the counter, again in taxes to finance the farm-support program to keep the price up. From his taxes came the money for such subsidy payments as the $3,759,000 paid to Russell Giffen of Fresno, Calif, for his 1948 grain, cotton and flax; $426,000 to the Reeds of Fort Fairfield, Me., and $216,000 to Rudolph Blier of Van Buren, Me. for his 1948 potatoes...
...emphasis of U.S. agriculture were shifted from grain to livestock, and if Americans would increase their annual meat consumption (now about 145 lbs. per capita) by only 10 lbs. and drink 20 quarts more milk apiece a year, the experts believed the farm surpluses would fade away and the country would be a lot healthier. There was certainly a high demand for meat: cattle raisers get no subsidy and want none, and yet porterhouse was selling last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock...
...farmer to change over to livestock required new equipment, new habits, new knowledges and plenty of capital. Brannan insisted that his farm plan was precisely the machine to convert the farmer-by bribing him with higher support prices for meats than for grains. But his critics pointed to an inconsistency: the Brannan Plan, mindful of the votes of the grain farmers, still promises high enough supports for grain products to keep wheat and corn growers satisfied with just what they are doing...
...Communist-run government of postwar Poland behaved as if the cession of the disputed territory (including coal, iron and grain-rich Silesia) were final then & there. It brutally proceeded to expel more than 5,000,000 Germans from their old homes. (These bitter refugees now crowd Western Germany...
Collective Action. Dr. Skinner trained some of his pigeons to cooperate. He put them two-by-two in cages and confronted them with pairs of buttons which released a little grain when pecked simultaneously. The pigeons soon learned the value of collective action. They tested all buttons with simultaneous pecks, and contentedly ate the resulting grain...