Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Midwest: "As was the case in the South under the cotton program, small towns in the corn-hog belt are feeling the first effect of the corn-hog benefit payments and improved farm prices. From the smaller towns, the money percolates in a steady and increasing stream to the larger trade centres...
...landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...
...farmers in 16 states who had already received $119,000,000 and would receive some $200,000,000 more for reducing corn-hog production, AAA sent ballots asking if they favored continuance of the plan. Five hundred thousand, or just over 40% of them, answered. Nebraska and Kansas turned thumbs down. But Iowa was 3-to-1 in favor of more control and more Federal money. Mighty Texas, recipient of more agricultural benefits than any other state, voted 9-to-1 for continuance. Total vote was favorable 2-to-1. "But if we are going to have a real economic...
...question of prices furrowed Secretary Wallace's brow as deeply as his concern over the half-a-hog vote among farmers. "There cannot be further increases in the percentage of the consumer's dollar that goes to the farmer as a result of reduction in supply," he significantly admitted. What he did not reveal was the fact that farm prices, as a result of drought and reduction, had risen to such a point that the whole Federal adjustment plan was being jeopardized...
...mere hog in body and mind, Gustavus and Joseph...