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Thus it was no accident that the campaign focused hard and sharp last week in the farm belt. Both presidential candidates put their hands to the plow in Iowa (see below). Both vice-presidential candidates found time to stop off in the farm areas. Dick Nixon sidestepped agricultural technicalities to ask for faith in Eisenhower; Estes Kefauver glided along like an imperturbable praying mantis, just showing his sympathy...
...Agriculture Marketing Service estimates that farmers will harvest 24% less oats, 3% less corn, 10% less barley, 21% less sorghum grain, 5% less hay than they did in 1955. Main reasons are drought and cold weather, which not only cut yield per acre but also prompted farmers to plow their damaged crops under and join the Federal Government's soil bank. Since the soil-bank plan was inaugurated in late May, more than 10.7 million acres of farmland have been taken out of production...
...months of 1956, trailed 13% behind 1952, largely as a result of the long-standing farm surplus problem. But the farm picture has been growing brighter. Though farm prices weakened slightly over the past month, they have surged 11% above the December 1955 low point; soil-bank aid will plow an additional $225 million into the farms by fall...
Reflecting the generally bright present, industry's confidence in the future has never been more robust. U.S. business in 1956 will plow a record $38 billion into new plants and equipment (v. $26 billion in 1952), thus continue to create jobs as fast as the work force expands to fill them. A record $4.2 billion in construction starts last month will soon be topped as the huge federal highway program moves into high gear. The auto industry will spend well over $1 billion for drastic restyling of ten (out of 19) U.S. makes, expects to equal...
...bushel under acreage control or $1.25 for over allotment corn. Then came the drought. Fiery winds seared crops in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Farmers looked at their parched and wilted fields, hied themselves off to the soil bank, signed on the dotted line and went back home to plow their stunted crops into the earth...