Word: muddlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year Families. Much of the muddlement of U.S. farm policies, argues Higbee, results from statistical fallacies. As the Agriculture Department reckons it, any grower of crops or raiser of livestock who has at least ten acres of land and markets at least $50 worth of farm goods a year counts as a "farmer." But that term includes everybody from the Southern mill hand who grows a field of cotton as a sideline, netting $70 a year on ten acres, to the Southwestern cotton baron who manages his empire from an air-conditioned office, netting $65,000 a year...
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