Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Super Market. In Moscow, a female zoo attendant was caught stealing the elephants' share of wheat and the lions' share of meat...
Before he can leave the U.S., Yankus must sell his100-acre farm near Dowagiac in southwestern Michigan, finish paying off $4,562 in penalties levied against him in court by the U.S. Government. His offense: raising for his 5,000 chickens more wheat than he was allowed under the average-quota system...
Under the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act (first ruled constitutional in 1942 and confirmed by the Supreme Court in a Texas case last week), all farmers in commercial wheat states are bound by quotas if two-thirds of the wheat farmers agree to quotas. Yankus understood the law but opposed it because he 1) did not want the subsidies that go with quotas...
...feeds all his own wheat to his chickens...
...determination to force Syria's free-enterprise economy into Egypt's state socialist mold had sent private capital into flight, and threatened to make Syria's hard pound almost as soft as Egypt's. It had been a disastrous year for Syria's wheat and barley crops. But Gamal Abdel Nasser himself seemed still to be the most popular man in the country. To make the new republic's first anniversary memorable, Nasser planned the first formal distribution of 155,000 acres of land to the peasants...