Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHEAT COMBINES HARVESTING TROUBLEMAKING BUMPER CROP IN BENTON COUNTY, WASH. 12 TIME , AUGUST...
...overseas, but now they were descending on the Continent in overwhelming numbers again. The $150 million spent by some 270,000 Americans in Britain alone this year will provide enough hard curency to pay for most of the dollar-short United Kingdom's purchases of U.S. tobacco and wheat. But to many a Briton, forced by a still constricted travel allowance ($280 in foreign currency) to stay at home while others wandered, the warm economic comfort of tourism was somewhat chilled by recognition of the fact that his tight little island was terribly overcrowded...
RESTLESS combines growled and rattled across the rippling wheat fields of the Northwest. In the South, newly picked cotton sped through gins and balers. Midwestern farmers sweated in fields of hay and ripe, yellow oats. Across the nation, the yearly harvest was under way, and despite drought in the Northeast, the worst in 35 years or more, many a U.S. farmer could agree with Fred Hill of Umatilla County, Ore. Pushing back his Stetson, lanky Farmer Hill, 44, cast an admiring eye over a field of ripened wheat and said with a grin: "The Lord's been good...
...that turns values topsy-turvy, makes good crop weather seem a national calamity and drought a boon. In a year of bountiful crops, the Agriculture Department will spend a record $5 billion, largely in an effort to cope with surpluses. Instead of going to markets, countless tons of the wheat, corn and cotton harvested last week will swell the $5.5 billion worth of farm surpluses stored in U.S. Government silos, warehouses and cold-storage vaults, which already hold more wheat than the nation consumes in a year and a pound of cheese for every man, woman, child and white...
...campaigning for billions in price supports, Washington politicos often give the impression that the subsidies benefit all of America's 5,400,000 farm families. Actually, only a minority gets them, since only five crops (wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco) are supported, and they are produced by the nation's most prosperous farmers. Left out almost completely are some 2,500,000 marginal farmers. These underfed and ill-housed families are a farm problem that few Congressmen talk about. Last week Congress grudgingly voted $2,500,000 for their benefit, a cut of $1,500,000 below...