Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn-hog belt. Farmers, their 1959 row crops in, and a little leisure time at hand, began to talk among themselves, on street corners, in grange halls, in bunking rooms, in the circles around the stockyard stoves. As always, the talk was about how hard it is to make a dollar. But this year the talk had the extra heat and urgency that come with falling farm prices. Farm-belt politicians tested the warning winds, decided that a fair-sized political storm was blowing up. And more fate-packed still was the widespread belief that, as Farmer Donald Mahlberg...
...cutting surplus production, as Benson unswervingly predicted, the no-control formula encouraged farmers to raise a bumper crop. And, as Benson's own department admitted last week, it swamped by 600 million bushels the previous all-time corn record set in 1958. Reason: farmers boosted production to make up for lower prices. Result: more corn to add to the $9 billion Government-stored crop surplus. In 1960 the taxpayers of the U.S. will pay out $1 billion for storage and interest alone...
Professing to be unshaken by the surplus corn, ailing (gall bladder) Ezra Benson last week got President Eisenhower's approval for the legislative proposals he will make to Congress early next year. Chief aim: to extend to wheat the same program that failed in corn, abolish acreage controls while lowering price supports from $1.77 to $1.40 per bu. Because the plan links support prices to the average market prices for the preceding three years (abandoning the old parity ratio based on 1910-14 figures), the Benson program will admittedly lead to a gradual downstep of prices each year. Benson...
...much resemblance to the horse-drawn carriage prototypes. There must be a somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach to the future as well as a conventional one." New approaches to knowledge are as out of this world as the moon itself. Its airless environment and its fantastic temperature range make an ideal laboratory for high-vacuum and cryogenic (refrigerants) research; the vast amounts of solar energy, if properly harnessed on the moon, might be used to affect or control the earth's weather...
Rockefeller said that he felt no political wounds from his recent junket into vice-President Nixon's home territory. He described the California venture as one of a series of trips which he plans to make before deciding whether or not to become a candidate...