Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herbert Clutter, set in the peaceful, prosperous, picture-book country west of Garden City, Kans. (pop. 11,000), seemed the nation's least likely setting for coldblooded, methodical murder. And the Clutter family seemed the nation's least likely victims. Herb Clutter, 48, a well-heeled wheat-grower, was just about the most prominent man in the region. He was chairman of the Kansas Conference of Farm Organizations and Cooperatives, a former member of the federal Farm Credit Board, a civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from...
...world is undernourished, why does the U.S. not empty all those shiny storage bins? Why don't other nations, such as Canada and Australia, join in distributing their food surpluses freely to the world's hungry? The U.S. last year sent India 3½ million tons of wheat. Since 1954 the U.S. has furnished such nations as Italy, Tunisia, Korea, India and Formosa with about $1.8 billion worth of food, either as gifts or in return for payment in local currencies...
Professing to be unshaken by the surplus corn, ailing (gall bladder) Ezra Benson last week got President Eisenhower's approval for the legislative proposals he will make to Congress early next year. Chief aim: to extend to wheat the same program that failed in corn, abolish acreage controls while lowering price supports from $1.77 to $1.40 per bu. Because the plan links support prices to the average market prices for the preceding three years (abandoning the old parity ratio based on 1910-14 figures), the Benson program will admittedly lead to a gradual downstep of prices each year. Benson...
...strength in Republican farm strongholds. Presidential Aspirant Stuart Symington proclaimed a program to aid the small farmer, Jack Kennedy called for some original Democratic thinking, and Hubert Humphrey (who has never delivered on the new farm program he promised at the last session of Congress) predicted that the Benson wheat program would bring "lower prices and the largest crop in the history of the world." Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, vice-presidential hopeful recently picked to be a farm expert by the Democratic Advisory Council, worked away in Des Moines on a Brannan-style farm plan that will call...
...Legislator Anderson as a promising young man, lifted him out of the legislature to serve as assistant attorney general. Moving along fast, Anderson became state tax commissioner at 24, head of the state unemployment commission at 26. In 1937 the W. T. Waggoner Estate, a 500,000-acre cattle, wheat and oil empire sprawling over six Texas counties, hired him away as general counsel. When the estate's general manager died in 1941, old Guy Waggoner called the clan together and said, "Let's let this boy run the business," meaning Robert Anderson, then...