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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheat. To provide for a normal year's domestic consumption and export of wheat plus a 30% carryover, the Act sets the national acreage allotment for 1938 at 62,500,000 acres, compared to 68,198,000 acres under cultivation last year. Allotments must be proclaimed by Secretary Wallace before July 15, divided among the wheat-producing States, counties, divided by county committees (including the Department of Agriculture's extension agent) among individual farmers. If the price (currently $1.11 a bushel in Manhattan) is less than 52% of the parity-price on June 15, or if the July...
Corn allotments must be proclaimed by February 1 of each year; that for 1938 "as soon as practicable." Corn crop loans will be granted when the price (currently 73? a bushel in Manhattan) is below 75% of parity on November 15, or if the November crop estimate is excessive. Marketing quotas will be invoked when supplies reach 2,700,000,000 bushels, penalties assessed at 15? a bushel...
Cotton allotments must be made by November 15 of each year; for 1938 ten days after the passage of the Act. Loan provisions are the same as those for wheat. Marketing quotas (except for 1938) will go into effect when supplies reach 19,500,000 bales with a 2?enalty for excess marketing on first crop and a 3? penalty on subsequent crops...
Rice allotments must be made by December 31. Although no loans are mandatory, rice growers have their own safeguard against overproduction-anyone producing rice for the first time in five years must take an acreage allotment 25% smaller than his farm would otherwise get. Marketing quotas will be invoked when supplies reach 10% above normal, with a penalty of ¼? a pound...
Founded on waterpower sites controlled by Alexander Hamilton, Passaic, N. J. developed into a beehive of small enterprise. One small Passaic enterprise is Canal Co., a neckwear shop employing 40 people and owned by one Max Brenner and the Brothers Tuckman, Jack & Kenneth. Monopolist Hamilton must have started in his grave last week when Canal Co. locked out its employes until they joined the union (C. I. O.'s Textile Workers' Organizing Committee". The company stated: "We are paying union wages and we sell our products to union houses, so we see no reason why ours should...