Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admits that a major national problem totally baffles him. But on Capitol Hill these days, lawmakers are confessing bafflement in the face of the massive and growing farm-subsidy scandal. "I admit I don't know what should be done," says a don't-quote-me G.O.P. wheat-state Senator. Vermont's George Aiken, ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee and longtime farm policy specialist, shakes his head in confessed bewilderment. Louisiana's Allen Ellender, Agriculture Committee chairman, mutters, "I wish I knew," when asked what he thinks Congress will do about farm reform this...
...cost of farm programs, which had averaged $1.5 billion a year in 1950-52; but in 1956-58, Agriculture Department outgo averaged $4.5 billion a year, and in the current fiscal year the total is estimated at a shocking $7 billion. The Federal Government's inventory of wheat, corn, cotton and other surplus farm commodities recently climbed to a new peak of $9 billion. And out in the wheat and corn belts, the soil is heavy with stored up moisture, hinting at bumper crops that may mock Benson's hopes of holding farm-program outlays to $6 billion...
...Other committee members, Republicans as well as Democrats, made it plain that they did not see Bible-quoting Mormon Apostle Benson as the needed Moses. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington charged Benson with trying to "lick this problem with phrases." North Dakota Republican Milton R. Young rumbled that the lower wheat supports requested by Benson "would break every wheat farmer...
...that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco), and Minnesota's Humphrey is working on a broader farm bill that will include some Brannan direct payment gimmicks...
...Cannon is the author of several best-selling books, including Red Rust, about raising wheat in Minnesota, and Heirs, about Polish people in New Hampshire. An avowed liberal, she has been prominent in the Birth Control Movement ("I stood for selectivity, not race suicide"), in public school work ("You're deserting your country if you're deserting them"), and in the N.A.A.C.P. In spite of liberal tendencies, Mrs. Cannon was at "sword's point" with son-in-law Schlesinger over the last presidential election. ("My children thought I was crazy...