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...since the great potato blight of 1846 packed U.S.-bound Irishmen by the thousands into stinking steerages had the people of Cork seen such seaborne misery. "What's to become of them?" asked one spectator emptily, as he gazed at the puny, battered British landing craft clinging to the Cork wharfside. Strings of ragged laundry hung on her forepeak. Bales, boxes, kiddie cars and prams overflowed from some of her lifeboats. In others, passengers, unable to find space on cluttered decks, sat patiently and nibbled at their meager rations...
...Dunces admit to membership only Dunster House men, but the converse of the axiom is not true. Let the CRIMSON take warning. There have been disgruntled rumblings from the electorate ever the error. Such phrases as "defamation of character," "libel," and "it wasn't the beer, it was the potato chips" have been heard since. John F. Freeman '51, See. of the Dunces
...Some Potatoes. In theory the $2.3 billion already laid out will be recouped when CCC sells its holdings, but in actual practice the taxpayer has been hit with some fantastic losses. Because of a potato surplus in 1947, the Department of Agriculture last year restricted the acreage. But farmers simply planted rows closer together and presented CCC with a bumper crop of 446 million bushels. Net loss to date: $203 million. In the coming potato season Congress may get tougher and tell farmers, not how many acres they can plant, but how many bushels they can grow...
Unlike the egg and potato surpluses, which have been problems for years, the flaxseed surplus is a new monster of the department's own making. U.S. paint manufacturers, big users of linseed oil (crushed from flaxseed), were being gouged by Argentine suppliers at the end of World War II. So the department encouraged domestic production by pegging the price of flaxseed at $6 a bushel. The encouraged farmers raised so much flaxseed that the market collapsed. CCC loss to date on flaxseed and linseed oil: $73 million...
...long run even the farmers might rebel against the increasing controls of support programs. They can catch a glimpse of their future in the proposed new potato support program. The more openhanded the Government becomes, the more strictly it may have to control what farmers grow right down to the bushel...