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Into Secretary Wallace's hands the farm bill puts a three-pronged pitchfork with instructions to try to toss farm prices high up on to the wagon of better days. No doltish hired man, the Secretary is expected to start his price-pitching slowly and easily, watching his aim, studying his effects, conserving his power. Farmers who expect to see a sharp overnight rise in commodity values are ill-informed...
Prong No. 1 of the Wallace pitchfork authorizes the Secretary to reduce production by contracting with farmers to rent the land they leave idle. What that rental will be has yet to be determined but estimates have ranged around $3 per acre. In theory the farmer who last year harvested 1,000 acres of wheat will get more by raising only 700 this year and collecting Government rent on 150. Declares Secretary Wallace: "The taking out of acreage on a wide scale is one necessary line of attack. I don't contemplate such reduction of acreage as meaning that...
...Hint of Ham" While cities were begging for Federal aid and Henry Ford was preaching back-to-the-soil, Congress was grappling doggedly with the question of relief legislation. Before the House Ways & Means Committee lay Speaker Garner's three-pronged proposal to pitchfork the country up to better times: 1) a billion dollars for the R. F. C. to loan to all-comers; 2) a hundred million of what he called "mercy money" for the President to give away; 3) about a billion and a quarter's worth of public works. Speaker Garner appeared before the committee to declare...
They almost lost when Gunda the elephant tried to kill his keeper. Another keeper drove Gunda away by driving a pitchfork into the tender hind quarters...
...weeks ago one young culprit, Austin Mills, stabbed a fellow prisoner. Raymond Brown, with a pitchfork. Brown died. His mother sued the State for $50.000. Immediately three investigation committees were set to work. Chief witness for the complainants was Farm Superintendent Peck. Said...