Word: turnip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under. The kernel of the New Frontier proposals calls for establishment of a "national farmer advisory committee'' for each farm commodity or group of related commodities. Each committee would draw up a "supply adjustment program" for its commodity, if it took a notion to do so. The turnip committee, say. would draft a turnip plan and submit it to the turnip growers. If two-thirds of them approved it, it would automatically become law, at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, unless Congress vetoed the program within 60 days-and what Congressman would vote against turnips...
...brother has bad news," said Mr. K., "Novogoro has lost the annual turnip-growing contest to Smolensk again...
...recollection and advice made Gene dizzy. "You'll have more fun learning yourself," he said, and ate a turnip...