Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowled Over. In Denver, Donna Doss, 24, paid a $15.50 fine for careless driving because she ate her breakfast while driving to work one morning, had a collision with another car, spilled a bowl of Cream of Wheat all over her hair, face and clothes...
...cuts and increased social-welfare payments encouraged consumers to buy at record rates. A $350 million government mortgage-loan program pushed housing to an alltime peak (160,000 starts) and touched off subsidiary booms in a dozen supply industries. A good farm and fishery year pushed exports of wheat, cattle and salmon to high levels, kept foreign money flowing...
...surplus wheat, corn, cotton, cheese, etc., in federal storage adds up to such fantastic bulk that it costs nearly $1 billion a year just to store the stuff while it slowly deteriorates. And the costs threaten to climb higher as farm output keeps rising. Last week the Agriculture Department reported that, though planted acreage was the smallest since 1918, the U.S.'s total 1958 crop output topped by a startling 11% the previous record highs of 1948, 1956 and 1957. For wheat and corn, already in generous oversupply, farmers set new yield-per-acre records...
...brought with him to Washington nearly six years ago-and no one knows it better than Ezra Benson. In a speech last week in Los Angeles, like the legendary sorcerer's apprentice, he all but pushed the panic button in warning that the runaway price-support programs for wheat, tobacco and peanuts "might soon become disastrous." Said he: "We must complete our revision of the farm programs without delay...
Statistics show that many of the dreams are coming true. Mexico now prefers bread to the corn tortilla. In 1937 the average consumer ate 41 lbs. of wheat bread a year; now he eats 62 lbs. He switches from pulque (the fermented juice of the century plant) to beer. In 1941 per capita consumption of beer was 97 quarts; today it is 25. He spends money to see movies, bullfights and soccer games. In 1936 the average Mexican spent 1.42 pesos on entertainment; last year it was 7.05. He begins riding, if only a bicycle. Bike registrations climbed from...