Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill. Thus propelled from the 75th Congress was the third major Farm Bill of the Roosevelt Administration, aimed at regulating the production and prices of the U. S. four major crops-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...
...crop each season based on production during preceding years; 2) to give farmers who cooperate with the acreage allotment program loans on their crops whenever prices fall too far below "parity"-the purchasing power relative to other commodities which wheat, corn, rice and cotton enjoyed between 1909-14 and tobacco between 1919-29 (unless Secretary Wallace thinks other base periods would be more just); and 3) to invoke compulsory marketing quotas, subject to rejection by one third of the growers involved in a referendum and enforced by penalty taxes, whenever national supplies of any crop exceed specified levels...
...Tobacco is the product of big growers and its regulation will be almost altogether compulsory. Not only are no loans mandatory, but marketing quotas can be invoked with a referendum when supplies are 5% over normal, and penalties are 50% of the purchase price...
Journeyman (adapted by Alfred Hayes and Leon Alexander from the novel by Erskine Caldwell; produced by Sam Byrd). The last novel by Erskine Caldwell to be cured for the stage was Tobacco Road, now in its fifth year. His Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage...
...another fact: the U. S. people, for the first time in history, were face to face with the Tax Collector-close enough to see the white of his eyes. Until the War, the U. S. Government was almost wholly supported by customs receipts and excises on liquor and tobacco. Income taxes were unconstitutional, business in general was virtually untaxed. But 31 pregnant words were added to the Constitution in 1913* and, because of the exigencies of War, the new income tax, personal and corporate, became the pillar of the Treasury. War-time taxation w?as regarded as temporary and when...