Word: husbandmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drought came too late to affect the wheat crop but it did, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, "much irreparable damage" to corn. Live stock, lacking pasturage and water, was rushed to slaughter houses before it died. The Farm Board prepared plans for "drought loans" to carry husbandmen over until next year...
...more money in the planter's pocket, that a 100 acres of 60? wheat is the same as 50 acres of $1.20 wheat. A more captious, unfair cry was that Chairman Legge, onetime head of International Harvester Co., wanted to reduce U. S. farm production so foreign husbandmen could make big crops, buy more U. S. agricultural implements. Department of Commerce figures were adduced showing farm implement exports for the first six months of 1930 were $78,997,334 compared to $72,068,581 for the same period last year...
Only small crumb of comfort the husbandmen had last week: announcements that Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery, Ward were reducing mail-order prices from...
...minimum appointment of one year (TIME, July 15). To Businessman Legge that seemed ample time to set up the $500,000,000 relief machinery authorized by Congress. The year passed. Chairman Legge found that "relieving agriculture" was not the simple direct thing he had anticipated. Husbandmen would not "cooperate" on mere orders from the Board. Commission men fought back desperately when their business was squeezed by cooperatives. Foreign countries could not be forced to buy U. S. crop surpluses. Wheat prices refused to rise when the Board tried to bull the market by direct buying. Business men flayed the Board...
...Farmers. Primary purpose of the Farm Board's Grain Corp. was to unite wheat growers into great cooperatives to manage the sale of their own crop. Despite the claims of Grain Corp. officials that this organization was going forward satisfactorily, there were new evidences last week that many husbandmen, always individualistic, were hostile to such groups. Reprints of rural newspaper advertisements against the Board were broadcast. A sample from the Central City (Neb.) Republican signed FRED A. MARSH. FARMER of Archer, Regent of Nebraska State University...