Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of election-year congressional wrangling (TIME, April 16 et seq.), the bank had got off to a late start. Most winter wheat was waving in the breezes, and most corn farmers saw more chance for profit in raising crops for the guaranteed support prices of $1.50 a bushel under acreage control or $1.25 for over allotment corn. Then came the drought. Fiery winds seared crops in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Farmers looked at their parched and wilted fields, hied themselves off to the soil bank, signed on the dotted line and went back home to plow their stunted crops...
...Charlie Brannan is a synthetic farmer and was a miserable failure as Secretary of Agriculture. I will challenge the ex-Secretary to a cotton-pickin', wheat-shockin', cow-milkin', calf-ropin' contest. If Brannan loses, he has to drop out. If I lose, I'll drop...
...upsurge in world trade (which has already soared 50% since 1948). shipowners are ordering giant new ore carriers, combination ore-petroleum ships, roll-on, roll-off carriers to haul loaded trucks and vans, fast new freighters to slake the world's impatient thirst for machinery and steel, coal, wheat, and other basic raw materials that must be hauled from the ends of the earth (see color pages). Most of all, shipowners are clamoring for tankers. Though the world's tanker fleet has doubled since World War II, oil shipments have grown to 45% of all tonnage moved...
SOIL BANK plan to cut surplus in six basic crops (corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco, rice, peanuts) is off to slow start. Agriculture Department reports that farmers have signed up to take only 2,000,000 acres out of production at cost to Government of $37 million for this year's bank. Goal for next year is 8 million to 15 million acres in bank, with long-term target of 25 million acres annually...
...threadbare, third-floor suite of rooms on a Paris back street, Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba told U.S. Ambassador to France C. Douglas Dillon that 400,000 unemployed Tunisians face starvation after two years of poor harvest. Tunisia, said Bourguiba, needs wheat fast. Dillon is keenly aware that France often resents U.S. aid and similar "interference" in North Africa. Had Bourguiba discussed his problem with the French government? Oh yes, said Bourguiba, it was the French Finance Minister, Paul Ramadier, who suggested that Tunisia should put the bite...