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...nation's two million cotton growers were shocked. To a House subcommittee for postwar agriculture. Claude E. Wickard, the mild Secretary of Agriculture, recommended that the Government with draw its cash support of cotton prices. In place of this political handout, Secretary Wickard proposed a nonpolitical plan to end the lopsided one-crop economy of the South. His proposal: let the Government pay growers a direct subsidy in stead of the present indirect subsidy of the parity system (TIME, Oct. 9), which gives growers "loans" of 20? a lb., at the present parity price...
...contrast to the lavish U.S. handout of tinsel and ribbon, the British Army, which has been more than two years longer in the war, has given only 10,896 medals; the British Navy, 6,570; the R.A.F...
More Bombers. Consolidated announced its $10,000 handout last February after grudging approval of the regional War Labor Board ("Loyalty cannot be bought"). Every Consolidated worker who had not missed a day's work in the month preceding the drawing or had not been tardy (later relaxed to allow one ten-minute tardiness per week) was eligible. At the first drawing (March 15) Consolidated's president, Harry Woodhead, announced that after one month of the plan there had been a drop in absenteeism, enabling the company to push out six and a half more bombers that month...
...Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked for a handout for a sick employe, he offered...
...youthful enthusiasms have run helter-skelter since he left Yale in 1929. First, deciding to dabble in politics, he published a pamphlet called The Standard Political Handbook, sold it to the Sun Oil Co. for a filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered a bit, then died...