Word: plows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cosmic energy as in Turner. It is not "romantic." Especially, it is not a vision of property, such as Rubens painted. What it offers is a numbing pressure of material substance. The plain stretches away under the winter sky, its bleak horizontality interrupted only by crows, harrow and a plow. Nothing could be less picturesque...
...dance, eat and sing La Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that his gun is too heavy...
...Henry Kissinger has endorsed the establishment of an International Fund for Agricultural Development to research new techniques for cultivating land. The World Bank has currently earmarked $1 billion for projects to aid the rural poor. The First World could also underwrite the cost of bringing new lands under the plow. Huge areas of Africa are suitable for livestock ranching but cannot be developed until money is available to eliminate diseases that attack both cattle and herders. Also badly needed: improved food-storage systems to prevent the massive destruction of grains by rot, insects, rodents and monkeys. In Calcutta, in fact...
...Louisiana, near the Texas border, there must be a town called Newllano. It was certainly there forty years ago, and some of it must be there still--big barracks-like buildings, perhaps, huge rotting printing presses, a dining hall, land where you can still see the marks of a plow. Newllano used to be the home of a commune called the Llano Cooperative Colony, where former Wobblies and the like from all over the country gathered in some numbers. They lived, farmed, published books and a weekly newspaper, and for a number of years staved of off foreclosure...
...President does plow under the "emergency" measure, it will be an act of mercy toward consumers, but a blow to farmers. To shore up net farm income, which nearly doubled in 1973 but fell 17%, to $27 billion, last year, the measure would increase the support price of milk from 75% to 80% of so-called parity, raise "target" prices of wheat, grain and cotton (giving farmers cash subsidies if the price falls below the "target" level), and allow the Government to make larger loans to growers. It would also raise grocery bills. According to Agriculture Department economists, the addition...