Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter's first freezing storms blew eastward last week down the Rocky Mountain slopes, whipped snow flurries across the Great Plains wheatlands, swirled into the Midwest's corn-hog belt. Farmers, their 1959 row crops in, and a little leisure time at hand, began to talk among themselves, on street corners, in grange halls, in bunking rooms, in the circles around the stockyard stoves. As always, the talk was about how hard it is to make a dollar. But this year the talk had the extra heat and urgency that come with falling farm prices. Farm-belt politicians...
...market (support price: $1.12 per bu.). But instead of cutting surplus production, as Benson unswervingly predicted, the no-control formula encouraged farmers to raise a bumper crop. And, as Benson's own department admitted last week, it swamped by 600 million bushels the previous all-time corn record set in 1958. Reason: farmers boosted production to make up for lower prices. Result: more corn to add to the $9 billion Government-stored crop surplus. In 1960 the taxpayers of the U.S. will pay out $1 billion for storage and interest alone...
...year. Benson believes that dropping prices will ultimately cut down the amount of wheat raised; U.S. farmers, past masters of food production, bet that they can keep their incomes from falling too fast by increasing their crop yields. Congress rejected Benson's wheat proposal last session, but this time Benson counts on a powerful new weapon: Ike's promise to go on TV next year and urge public backing for Benson's wheat program...
...must clear the lines of bureaucratic responsibility and see that the space program is directed with determined authority; last month the President made a start on this problem, but only a start, when he transferred the Army's space team to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (TIME, Nov. 2). The second and overriding problem: the U.S. must develop an official understanding of the need for urgency in getting into space-or what Washington might call "the scientific and military requirement for space...
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