Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this summer than have appeared on any other program in so short a time in all the history of radio. Among them were fabulous boatbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and world-traveler Wendell Willkie, Army Supply Chief General Brehon B. Somervell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Philippine President Manuel Quezon...
...Claude Wickard sounded an ominous warning. By year's end industry and war may have taken two million more young men from the farms. Next year there will be less labor, less machinery, probably less beneficent weather-but a bigger demand for food. Sooner or later, said the usually optimistic Secretary of Agriculture, legislation may have to come to keep workers on farms, for farmers cannot pay wages to compete with industry...
Claude R. Wickard, this new food-conservation program has been named the Becker Plan by enthusiastic fish and wildlife directors...
Strange are the consequences which will follow Secretary Wickard's modest proposal to solve the meat shortage by limiting everybody to a uniform ration of two and a half pounds a week per person...
Secretary Wickard spoke of his plan as a 25% reduction in meat-eating. But people with incomes over $5,000 normally eat almost four pounds of meat a week. For them his program will mean not a 25% reduction...