Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm problem, expediency had multiplied "our price-depressing surpluses at the risk of making the problem twice as bad." The answer: a "program of principle" that will "preserve our continent's basic resource of soil" and a determined effort to get farm prices and income "back on a genuinely healthy basis." ¶ In labor relations, the Administration has stuck fast to the principle of free collective bargaining despite the argument that in major labor disputes the Government should force the parties to agree by knocking their heads together. The result: "For the first time in our history, a complete...
Agriculture. Both agree that farmers are entitled to a full share of the national prosperity; that the soil bank, commodity loan and rural electrification programs should be continued; that new foreign markets must be sought for U.S. farm products; that the plight of low-income farmers must be remedied. Beyond these, the issues are struck. The Democrats urge restoration of rigid price supports at 90% of parity, aim toward 100% of parity with a variety of proposals for more federal farm legislation. (Notably avoided: any mention of the ill-famed Brannan Plan, long the official policy of the Truman Administration...
...wages of workers have risen, to the Arab area where the wells are still virgin, where land over vast spaces continues to cost nothing, and where the worker continues to receive less than a subsistence wage. Half the proved reserves of oil in the world lie beneath Arab soil. Have I made clear how great the importance of this element of strength is? So we are strong−strong not in the loudness of our voices when we wail or shout for help, but rather when we remain silent and . . . really understand the strength resulting from the ties binding...
...less corn, 10% less barley, 21% less sorghum grain, 5% less hay than they did in 1955. Main reasons are drought and cold weather, which not only cut yield per acre but also prompted farmers to plow their damaged crops under and join the Federal Government's soil bank. Since the soil-bank plan was inaugurated in late May, more than 10.7 million acres of farmland have been taken out of production...
...first six months of 1956, trailed 13% behind 1952, largely as a result of the long-standing farm surplus problem. But the farm picture has been growing brighter. Though farm prices weakened slightly over the past month, they have surged 11% above the December 1955 low point; soil-bank aid will plow an additional $225 million into the farms by fall...