Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four nations carved out of old Syria since World War I,* is only slightly larger than Missouri. Of its 72,000 square miles, one-third is desert or mountain, another third is steppe, which furnishes seasonal pasturage for Bedouins. Save for a bit of the Euphrates Valley and the wheat-growing plains of the extreme northeast, most of Syria's fertile land lies in a narrow, well-watered belt paralleling the Mediterranean coast. So do the nation's two biggest cities (each about 500,000 population): the commercial center of Aleppo and colorful Damascus, which boasts that...
...right of citizens to travel." he said. "We reject the notion that we are a tool of Communist propaganda." Not 24 hours later one of the group, Brooklyn's Larry Moyer, was pumping out glowing dispatches for the United Press about Communism's "oceans of golden wheat . . . big factories and golden domes of Byzantine churches . . . new industrial giants seldom visited by foreigners...
Many members of Congress would rather ignore the porcupine than vote for any such new program. But even farmers have come to realize that the present setup cannot last. Wonders an Oregon wheat farmer: "Is the taxpayer going to stand for it? I can't think any program relying on Government help in the long run is an answer. It's phony, phony as hell." A Utah farmer looks at it the same way: "You can't buy a solution to the farm problem by spending more and more money. So why don't they stop...
...from Congress in 1954 a grudging bit of price-support flexibility, but last year it took an Eisenhower veto to keep Capitol Hill from restoring the old system of rigid, mandatory support, at 90% of parity, under six basic farm commodities, including wheat, cotton, corn. Benson himself has had to learn to bend with political winds, to compromise, zigzag and, as he puts it with a wan smile, "rise above principle...
...gets his way, the Government will no longer use supports to try to make farming profitable even for an inefficient farmer on an obsolete small farm. Supports would serve only to prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields to more profitable crops. In time-he hopes -supply would come into balance with demand, acreage controls would fade away, and the flow of wheat into Government storage would...