Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be many years before the market can be expanded sufficiently to meet supply, the solution to the problem must come thorugh limitation of production. On this point, both parties agree that the soil bank is a partial solution. Under this program, originally a Democratic idea, farmers are paid to take land out of production, thus cutting crop sizes and raising prices...
...SOIL-BANK CONTRACTS for 1957 will probably fall short of goal, at least for wheat. As of September 28, one week before deadline, farmers had signed to take only 4,300,000 acres of winter wheat out of production v. some 10 million acres Agriculture Department considers necessary...
...would urge consideration of what could be called a "legume bank" to change the emphasis from reducing cash crop production to increasing acreage of soil-building crops...
...assure ample credit at fair rates to the farmer who has to borrow money. We must protect REA co-ops by safeguarding and using the preference clause and by assuring them adequate funds for transmission, generation and distribution. We must conserve the greatest asset we have inherited-the soil . We must strengthen the agricultural conservation program and the Soil Conservation Service, restore the role of leadership to the conservation districts, restore the administration of agricultural programs to farmers, and take emergency measures when needed to prevent another dust bowl...
...Hackett on Broadway two seasons ago as the tippling racketeer in Sidney Kingsley's Lunatics and Lovers and signed him for two one-shot shows. After a season of high-flying spectaculars-some right out of left field -Liebman decided to return, with Hackett, to more fertile, familiar soil (other Liebman proteges: Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca). Liebman regards Hackett as the best "take" artist since Caesar, i.e., he reacts strongly to people and things. "With Buddy," says Liebman, "it's usually the 'take' that gets the laugh rather than the joke...