Word: normalization
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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...
...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...
Widener is one of the few libraries that permits loans for a months and this privilege is less a stimulus to study than an invitation to inertia. The normal student who has four weeks in which to note a few chapter headings, will ignore the work until about three days before the book is due. All but the more conscientious students of the more intricate volumes can complete the appointed task in two weeks. Those who cannot, may renew the book in the absence of demand. Their long and perhaps unnecessary trek to the delivery desk may be inconvenient...
...prove that underconsumption (not the cattleman's frequent other trouble, overproduction) is to blame, Chairman Thomas E. Wilson of Wilson & Co. announced that while "normal" U. S. per capita consumption of meat is 146 lb. per year, consumption last year was only 120 lb.. a difference equivalent to 5,600,000 head of cattle. Normal cattle population of the U. S.: 65,000,000. I. A. M. P. plans a nationwide advertising campaign to make people eat up the surplus. Theme: "Market supplies of livestock are such that there is an abundance of meat of improved quality available...
...have animals were perfectly normal even after considerable exposure, Dr. Danker reported, but autopsy examinations showed that all the mixtures, except the least chlorinated, had attacked the liver. The least chlorinated, was also found to affect the liver to some extend but only under extreme conditions which workmen would never experience...