Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past ten years. To make this even more attractive, the concocters provided that federal wartime subsidies (paid to keep consumer prices below OPA ceilings) should also be tossed in the weighing pan, together with the cost of hired farm labor. This parity formula would give better prices to livestock and tobacco raisers. But it might not work for everything. So Congress thoughtfully provided that for the next four years, if the old formula provided a higher support price for any basic crop, that was what the farmer...
...grounded corn would be lost, but it would take a long time to harvest, and farmers would have to hurry before rain or snow ruined the corn. Some farmers this week were turning their livestock into the fields to do the gleaning for them; many were hiring schoolboys to do the backbreaking picking by hand. In some localities, schools closed...
...Most of its customers were being taken care of by trucks, buses and competing rail lines. But in Arkansas, 55 factories employing almost 3,500 persons were closed because of the MoPac shutdown; farmers in the Kansas City area reported heavy losses because of lack of transportation for their livestock. Confronted with the certainty of such distress, the MoPac strikers had refused to work through the National Railroad Adjustment Board, which is established by law for the settlement of just such matters...
Corn & Television. What hybrid corn did for the corn farmers, Schnering hopes to do for the dairymen, some of whom already think the plan "may be the biggest advance in the livestock industry in more than 100 years." Says Schnering: "Except for television, artificial breeding is the fastest growing business...
...Manpower Commission. His present job of keeping TIME'S editors up-to-date on Denver and the Rocky Mountain area is as varied as Beshoar's extensive (859,009 sq. mi.) territory. It requires a regional expert's knowledge of many fields : mining, livestock and oil, for instance, as well as local state politics. The Denver bureau's growing news file includes such stories as the Goethe Festival at Aspen, Colo. (TIME, July 11), the cow that Sot stuck in the silo (TIME, March...