Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel. To U.S. Commander Dwight Towers, who has brought his atom-powered submarine safely to port in Melbourne, the death in the north has no meaning. He still dreams of returning from duty to his wife and children in Mystic. Conn. A young Australian couple, Peter and Mary Holmes, use habit as an escape from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first seems to drink too much, but a Platonic relationship with Commander Towers soon settles her into...
...rigged that, as overseas sales are successful, price supports rise automatically - hence bring on more surpluses. Designed to ensure farm stabilization, it has instead warped the farm economy, e.g., Northwest farmers, restricted on wheat acreage, grow barley instead, and are now starting a cattle-feeding program to use the barley. "The hell of it is," said one of them, "all it would take is an administrative ruling right now to rip up the whole program...
What keeps this clumsy, costly apparatus from the scrap heap is longstanding political regard for the farm vote. Understandably, U.S. farmers have learned to use political power to make up for economic weakness. Unlike big unions, farmers have no collective bargaining power. Unlike big corporations, they cannot control the supply of their products. When the nation's farms produce too much wheat, an individual farmer cannot keep the price up by holding part of his crop off the market: even a big farmer's share of the total wheat supply is a thimbleful in a carload...
...exact a toll in morale. TIME correspondents in all major agricultural regions found farmers who wanted to talk "off the record" about temptations to dishonesty under the program. One Indianan sold the topsoil off a field and put the barren ground into a soil bank; a group of Californians use soil-banked acres to start future fruit orchards. Says Lynn Larson, who holds a city job to fatten his lean income from a 2O9-acre farm near East Garland, Utah: "Under these federal programs, the farmers border on being crooks-always looking for loopholes, letting cattle graze on land...
Most farmers and farm leaders sense that changes in federal farm programs are overdue. A lot of farmers, and members of Congress too, favor a "two-price" plan under which 1) farmers would get 100% of parity for commodities sold for human use in the U.S., but 2) would get the free-market price for animal feeds and commodities sold for exports (a scheme sure to bring yowls against dumping from foreign countries...