Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heels of Judge Dawson's ruling came a revelation that Comptroller General John R. McCarl had put AAA in the worst hole of its career. When drought began to shrivel Midwestern wheat fields AAA relieved spring wheat growers of their pledge to cut their 1935 acreage by 10%, promised they would still get some $30,000,000 in benefit payments for acreage reduction. Ruled Comptroller McCarl: No reduction, no bounties...
...years to build, cost Miss Moore $435.000. Each room is built around some fairy character, such as Cinderella or Sinbad. A 15-in. solid gold organ plays, a silver nightingale sings by electricity. A golden chandelier is hung with pear-shaped diamonds, lighted by electric bulbs the size of wheat grains. Pumps in the dungeon and tanks in the turrets make fountains splash, chimes tinkle. For the library many an author penned a tiny book in miniature. For the walls artists painted miniature murals. Miss Moore will take her "pet extravagance" on a world tour, donate the proceeds...
Marion (Ann Harding) is a sophisticated artist, whose affairs had been construed to be slightly Bohemian, and therefore to Dick Kurt (Montgomery) the hardboiled magazine editor, presented themselves as good copy. Leavening this wheat of Mr. Behrman's, Una Merkel and Edward Everett Horton as fiancee and ponderous senator-to-be prove entirely successful. The "senator" also becomes the butt of the editor's vituperation on the political and economic condition of the country--which elicits merited approval of the audience...
...boots (when vacationing on his father's fruit farm in upstate New York), his job in life has been not in the fields but at a desk. By the same token his prime enthusiasms do not spring from the sight of an unusually good stand of wheat but rather from the contemplation of an unusual, bold, far-reaching economic idea. Last week he had extraordinary scope for such ideas, for he was about to carry out the land-use portions of the President's latest relief program. His cut was tentatively set at $350,000,000 for erosion...
...dust to the square mile goes scooting across the country in a March gale, what may not happen in July? Mr. Wallace decided that the danger of drought was greater than the danger of surplus. He issued an order: Farmers who had pledged themselves to reduce their 1935 Spring wheat planting 10% below normal were relieved of their pledge. More important, he ordered that some $30,000,000 which AAA had contracted to pay Spring wheat growers for reducing their acreage should still be paid, whether the farmers do anything...