Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sliding from the Peak. Behind the swirling clouds of political dust that surrounded the farm situation, it was possible to locate and nail down some solid economic facts. Pieced together, they produced a picture of U.S. agriculture that bore little resemblance to the scene of despair conjured up amid cries of havoc...
...farmer is a painful but not yet critical adjustment from a decade in which a voracious, war-stimulated world appetite demanded all the food that the U.S. could produce at whatever price the buyer had to pay. Since 1951, when war demand pushed farm income close to its alltime peak, gross farm income in the U.S. has dropped 11%. Because the cost of what the farmers buy has gone up in that period, they have been caught in a squeeze that has pushed net farm income down 27%. But another factor has tended to ease the blow. As a result...
...they slid from the 1951 peak, farmers have fared much better than they did after World War I. In the two years after the farm peak of that war, gross farm income dropped 41% and the net fell 60%. More than four years after the war-induced peak of the World War II-Korean War era, farmers are still better off than they were in the late 19303. In 1940, with a gross income of $11 billion and a net of $4.3 billion, the farm-parity ratio (balancing what the farmer sells against what he buys...
Guilty Birds. Primary clues: Japanese B breaks out regularly every June in Japan and Korea, subsides in September. Peak numbers of cases go with hot, wet weather. In southern Japan, up to 95% of all tested subjects over 20 have antibodies which give them immunity: they have had an undetected, mild case, as so often happens with polio. But in cold, northern Hokkaido, fewer than 10% have antibodies. Where the people have antibodies, so have horses, cattle, goats, sheep and chickens. So Japanese farmers who have brought chickens into their homes (and Koreans who have asked the cattle in) during...
...local readers in the past three years, is down to 49,000 in a city of 700,000 Negroes. Its national edition has dropped to 37,000, about half its 1952 circulation. New York's Amsterdam News has dropped more than 25,000 from its 1947 peak of 62,770. The weekly Afro-American, which publishes 13 local and regional editions, including twice-weekly editions in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., has dropped from 230,000 to 188,000 in national circulation since World War II, may have to drop some of its editions, e.g., in New England, to concentrate...