Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White-haired, keen-eyed Sam Kennedy, Iowa's biggest onion and potato grower, last week finished a distasteful task. Across a 40-acre field on his farm near Clear Lake, Farmer Kennedy dumped 30 carloads of red and yellow globe onions. He put them there to rot. Like many another grower, Kennedy had been caught when onion prices, unsupported by Government props, collapsed a fortnight...
...Kennedy, who also raised 6,500,000 pounds of potatoes last year, admitted that he had made money from the potato support program. But he did not like that program either. "A lot of these crops," said he, "aren't grown for the market at all, but just for the support price. I believe in a free economy, and political control is not a free economy at all. The present setup is a vote-catching proposition and nothing else. Support prices at 90% of parity are sure politics...
Between the Crops. But nobody denied that the union had the right valley, if the wrong man. Last week an estimated 40,000 farm laborers were jobless, watching their savings melt away between the early cotton and the delayed potato crop. A small fraction of them lived passably well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area...
...their knees to kiss the soil of freedom. A little boy hugged his teddybear: "Teddy's come all the way from Liegnitz. He and I are going to live with uncle." One little girl, given an orange, had never seen one before, thought it was a yellow potato. The refugees left behind watched silently, too exhausted for envy, too worried for vicarious happiness. When the reading of the British list was ended, only 55 refugees had crossed the border...
...Came to Dinner. In Denver, thieves broke into Barbara Klo-berdans' apartment, took $30 cash, $49 worth of clothes, ate some potato salad, drank some Scotch, found varnish and brush in the kitchen cabinet and touched up the door they had splintered...