Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is real living!'" Winchell recommended that he take the nightclub offer, but Godfrey settled for a network contract with CBS. "I'm eternally grateful to Winchell for discovering me," says Godfrey. "The only thing that Walter forgets is that he dropped me like a hot potato when I flopped...
...Government man got in touch with Farmer Art Wardner of East Grand Forks, Minn, one day last week to buy up Art's big stockpile of 1949 potatoes. It was a cozy ceremony and just crazy enough to point at one of the more fantastic aspects of the U.S. farm program. The Government man agreed to pay Art $2,336 for his 160,000 pounds of spuds at $1.46 a hundredweight. Then, without a single potato changing hands, Art wrote a check for $16. He mailed it to the Government, thus bought back his potatoes for cattle feed...
Thanks to the farm lobby and the flabby generosity of the U.S. Congress in its worship of the farm vote, U.S. potato growers were in the fat and the whole farm program was in the fire. The Department of Agriculture, set to administering a law it didn't like, had ordered potato acreage cut-but growers had simply moved their potato rows closer together, poured on the fertilizer and grown more spuds per acre. By pegging potato support prices high (currently at a top of $1.80 to $2.40 a hundredweight), the U.S. Government was stuck with 50 million bushels...
There was a lot of embarrassed discussion of the subject going on in Congress last week; the farm lobby feared that the potato foolishness might jeopardize all of their subsidies. The subject plagued Congressmen even when they went into the House and Senate restaurants to eat. When they asked for potatoes, they got Canadian potatoes...
...statement quoted by Mullins read: "In Boston, the first wave of the new immigration was typified by the Irish peasant fleeing from the potato famine--dirty, ignorant, and miserable, and perhaps most important, a Papist...