Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco-also rice. Three major types of legislation provided models: the voluntary crop control insured by the first AAA through loans and benefit payments; the compulsory control enforced by penalties for overproduction introduced in the Bankhead Cotton Act and .the Tobacco Act; the voluntary reduction of soil-depleting acreage to encourage which the Government paid farmers $500,000,000 a year under the Soil Conservation...
Odds & Ends, 1) an appropriation of $4,000,000 for four regional research laboratories to investigate new uses, markets, and by-products for farm commodities; 2) the appropriation of $20,000,000 unexpended balance from the $500,000,000 Soil Conservation Act appropriation to finance a new Federal Crop Insurance Corporation empowered to issue policies to farmers against crop disaster; 3) a provision to limit payments to any one farmer in any one State to $10,000; 4) the recognition in principle of outright payments to farmers to make up the difference between market and "parity prices," which will...
...What the administration of the Act would cost, neither Chairman Smith, nor Chairman Jones, nor any of its sponsors ventured to say. While the House and Senate bills were being drawn up, President Roosevelt asked that the appropriations be kept within the $500,000,000 appropriated to administer the Soil Conservation Act. Some Congressional estimates ran as high as $1,500,000,000. Assumption was, however, that Secretary Wallace could use his discretionary power over crop loans to keep the cost near the President's figure. Like the Soil Conservation Act, the Act provided for no compensating revenues such...
...land of Neverpresent there lived a goodly people, with herds of cattle, flocks of sheep and goats, and sties full of fat swine. Their streets were all paved with cobblestones, and each house had a white gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...
...farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront on St. George's Island. Main difficulty was that "Ferry Reach'' was a fatiguing 850 ft. from the boat house where visitors ordinarily landed. Last week this difficulty was overcome...