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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...
"Parse" 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. Twice Parisius submitted such plans to Claude Wickard. Twice the Food Boss agreed, only to...
A man of guts, Parse Parisius finally exploded: "We in Agriculture have a job to do that calls for courage and wisdom and action. You have placed upon me great responsibility for that job. But neither I nor anyone else can do that job unless his authority to operate is...
Parse Parisius was reared on a Wisconsin farm, taught in Northwestern (Wis.) College, was a Lutheran pastor in Rice Lake, Wis., directed Farm Security work in Wisconsin, before becoming assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He got to be associate director of Agricultural War Relations last June, when Claude Wickard...
But well do Roy Hendrickson and Parse Parisius know that the 1943 food problem will not be solved by exhortation and lament, but by painfully undoing the blunders which have reduced the "best-fed nation" to conditions in some places bordering on a food panic. Evidence of how badly someone...