Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflated farm program (1959 budget: $7 billion) floats its biggest loans and subsidies to the huge corporation farms. Example: Delta & Pine Land Co., a 37,000-acre, English-owned plantation in Mississippi, drew $1,167,502.35 in Government price-support loans on its 1957 cotton crop, $20,761.20 in soil-bank subsidy (now partly abandoned) for not planting riceland. Example: Westlake Farms, Inc., of Stratford, Calif., did a heads-we-win-tails-you-lose business with taxpayer money: $854,450.67 from Commodity Credit Corp. for the cotton it raised, $125,942.50 from the soil bank for the cotton...
Benson-approved proposals to set upper limits on subsidies to the big farms. Totting up the biggest outlays, he found that ten large operators siphoned off $3,447,902.81 in price-prop money, $557,495-35 in soil-bank funds. By comparison, 1,227 farmers in tiny Delaware altogether drew but $917,286 from the soil bank. "The high rigid support program is little more than a Government guarantee on the operations of corporate-type farming," charged Williams, "and actually encourages and underwrites absentee ownership to the detriment of small farmers...
...year, and in the current fiscal year the total is estimated at a shocking $7 billion. The Federal Government's inventory of wheat, corn, cotton and other surplus farm commodities recently climbed to a new peak of $9 billion. And out in the wheat and corn belts, the soil is heavy with stored up moisture, hinting at bumper crops that may mock Benson's hopes of holding farm-program outlays to $6 billion in fiscal...
...Enriquez. 47, dedicated 13 more miles of blacktop road through virgin farmland, rushed ancient Quito's $10 million face lifting (a jet airport, a new congressional palace), timed for the eleventh meeting of the Pan American Union next year. "Our people are working,'' says Ponce. "Our soil is flowering...
...boom is a ten-year record of political stability, starting with Galo Plaza Lasso, 53, onetime University of California fullback, who won the presidency in 1948. The secret ingredient is democracy, both of thought and action. Coupled with the brains to take advantage of Ecuador's rich soil, it brought the boom. As the dread Panama disease, a killing blight, ravaged older banana plantations through Central America, Galo Plaza spent every dollar his government could spare to open up the virgin coastal plain, where rich topsoil lay three feet thick. In ten years Ecuador built 1,600 miles...