Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...16th major veto in seven years, his fourth in 1959. The other three this year: REA, wheat, tobacco bills...
...crop surpluses. Feed growers are prowling Europe looking for new markets to serve Europe's growing livestock industry; free samples of U.S. fried chicken, cigarettes and doughnuts are being handed out at trade fairs; Italian spaghetti manufacturers are being shown how to make good pasta with U.S. wheat, instead of their traditional but scarce durum wheat...
...most aggressive farm groups in this field has been the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association. Four years ago, alarmed at the loss of overseas markets, the Nebraskans started levying a quarter-cent-a-bushel tax on all the wheat produced and sold in their state. The funds, amplified by foreign counterpart (local currency) funds at the disposal of the Foreign Agricultural Service, were used to run wheat laboratories in Lima and New Delhi to test local grains, in the process show mills what good U.S. wheat grades to order to make more nutritious, more bakable bread. The work went over...
Quantity v. Quality. One of the big problems is to rebuild confidence in the quality of U.S. wheat. Under the support program, many farmers turned to growing poor-grade grain because the yield was greater than on high-quality wheats. When this was dumped abroad by the Government it turned buyers away from the U.S. On top of this, many a grain man was not above shipping second-grade wheat when top quality was ordered. Two British mills, which were taking 1,000,000 bushels a month, became so disgusted with the poor quality of the wheat that they stopped...
Impressed by the wheat campaign, the Grain Sorghum Producers Association of Amarillo decided to spend $30,000 in the next two years to encourage European feed mills and farmers to buy more U.S. coarse grains. The U.S. Rice Export Association of New Orleans invested $35,000 in a market analysis, learned that most European groceries sell rice out of bins; thus the European housewife often does not know whether it will cook up as firm, separate kernels or a gluey mess. One U.S. rice processor, Dallas' Comet Rice Mills, is now invading European retail stores with brightly boxed, consumer...