Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement to potato growers, Benson said: "The current potato surplus and low prices are a direct result of over-plantings, despite acreage guides and additional warnings by the Secretary...
...Congress, amid cries of crisis and warnings of impending catastrophe, only a few weeks ago rushed through authorization for Benson to buy potatoes and channel them to Government-supported outlets such as the school lunch program. While potato consumption in the U.S. has fallen off slightly, production has gone up, from 349 million bu. in 1952 to 374 million last year. Benson thought that to resume Government buying of potatoes would only compound the problem by raising the incentive for big plantings, thereby increasing the surplus...
Vital Ingredient. West Germany throbs with its fabulous recovery while the East Germans under Soviet rule are on the brink of starvation. In Düsseldorf, Munich and other cities, where only a few years ago the ragged populace scrabbled through the rubble in desperate search for a single potato, rebuilt hotels teem with prosperous travelers, and the air is filled with shop talk and cigar smoke. In the Ruhr, bomb-shattered steel mills glow once more through the long winter nights. Germans who were once glad to sell their prized possessions for a few packs of cigarettes now have...
...underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says Gogarty, were: "I have the title for my book of poems-Chamber Music...
...intensively and intelligently. Chemical fertilizers, manure and cover crops have improved the poor virgin soil. Each year New England's farmers put more plant food into their lands than they take out. The result: a thriving agriculture that grows high-value crops on "manmade" soil. Maine's potato farms produce 11 times as much an acre as they did 80 years ago. In the 1950 census, Connecticut led all the states in income per acre of land in farms: Connecticut, $95.31; Iowa, $27.73; South Carolina...