Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plains and rolling hills of Illinois and Iowa, where farmers were turning the soil for this year's crop of corn, were a geometric pattern of black and brown and green. On to the West and South, through Kansas and into Texas, the spreading, endless fields of wheat were coming green and beginning to ripple softly in the wind. In the Deep South, across the bottom of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, green shoots were peeking out of the ridges in the cotton fields...
...Rising Above Principle." Benson has since done some zigzagging. In 1954, he issued orders that a farmer would have to comply with all acreage allotment rules and marketing quotas to get price supports on any of his crops, e.g., a wheat farmer who cut his acreage to get into the wheat support program could not turn around and plant an unsupported crop on the land and thus contribute to another surplus. Under pressure, Benson later canceled this "cross-compliance" order which, though difficult to administer, would have put sharp teeth in acreage control...
...supports only encouraged production for the Government's bins. As of last week, the Commodity Credit Corp. had more than $9 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money (equal to the total U.S. budget of 1940) invested in surplus crops and crop loans, the bulk of it in wheat, corn and cotton...
What caused Courbet as much trouble as his subject matter (a village funeral, peasant stone breakers, farm women winnowing wheat) was his own self-centered swagger and robust peasant's appetite. One of his favorite painting subjects was himself (see cut). He accepted an admirer's praise by assenting with gusto, "I paint like le bon Dieu." A sturdy, black-bearded bohemian, Courbet would sit up drinking until dawn, once on a trip to Munich defeated 60 Bavarians in a four-day drinking bout. His taste in female models (many of whom became his mistresses) was equally gargantuan...
...beach, showed some outer symptoms of extreme Buntism-"a paunch that hung over the belt of his tattered drawers, and cheeks which shook." But Captain Overton did not recognize the signs. "Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on. This promises to be one of the most interesting days of my life...