Word: parisius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Africa was the eye opener. To the spot went OFRRO's able, balding Food Expert Herbert Parisius, 48, who quit the Agriculture Department last January in protest against its do-nothing policies. He found North Africa stripped of food by the Nazis. But the wheat crop was growing high in the sun-baked fields...
Mines in the Wheat. Shipments of 40,000 tons of wheat tided North Africa over its crisis. Expert Feeder Parisius, with a chance to put his production theories into practice, concentrated on the harvest. He got sappers to clear away the mines planted among the wheat. He got oil, binder twine and spare parts for North Africa's farm machinery. To give North Africans an incentive, he urged shipments of U.S. clothing that the workers could buy with money earned in the fields...
Plowshares and Bulls. The luck of "Parse" Parisius and colleagues may not hold, but they are sure now that they know how to speed their job under any circumstances. They figure that 500-600 tons of iron and steel shipped to Greece can be hammered into enough plows and hand tools to produce thousands of times this weight in food. Actually they even plan to build up Occupied Europe's decimated animal population through artificial insemination by U.S. bulls and boars...
...TIME, JAN. 25) "PARISIUS HAD A GOOD AND TESTED IDEA: TO DRAW A MILLION SMALL FARMERS INTO THE NATION'S CRITICAL FOOD PRODUCTION BATTLE BY PROVIDING THEM SUPERVISION AND CREDIT FOR NEEDED EQUIPMENT, FEED AND FERTILIZER." BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS REPORTS THAT 2,OOO,OOO LOW-INCOME FARMERS PRODUCE ONLY 3% OF FARM PRODUCTS GOING TO MARKET. EVERY FARMER KNOWS THAT NEEDED FOOD INCREASE CAN COME ONLY FROM 4,OOO,OOO FARMS PRODUCING 97% OF COMMODITIES GOING TO MARKET AND MAINLY FROM 3,OOO,OOO TOP FARMS THAT PRODUCE 86%. ALL CREDIT TO PRACTICAL FARMER CLAUDE WICKARD FOR REJECTING...
Blandly Claude Wickard named as Parisius' successor M. Clifford Townsend, onetime Governor of Indiana and a man acceptable to the farm bloc...