Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal in cotton which Commodity Credit Corp. made with Peru last week was not just another U.S. subsidy to a Good Neighbor. It was a step, in Claude Wickard's words, toward "the working out of world cotton production and marketing problems after the war." It foreshadowed a day when the growers of the Western Hemisphere, under U.S. leadership, will present a united front to the cotton markets of the rest of the world, and at the same time cooperate to reduce their own dependence on those markets. It was a step toward the internationalization...
Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard had the big job of feeding the United Nations; he was just outside the War Cabinet. The rest of Washington's onetime great had faded away; their jobs were no longer important or they had been tried by war and found wanting. Jesse Jones had lost much of his power, more of his prestige. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins had virtually no job left. Good, grey Cordell Hull, who returned to his desk this week after a long rest in Florida, had seen the world shrink smaller and smaller...
...came out last week. It came not from the Army or Navy but from the Agriculture Department's Crop Reporting Board. CRB's latest report-on 1942 farm planting-was, as usual, statistics-crammed, unreadable. But in the light of Secretary Claude Wickard's maxim: "Food will win the war and write the peace" (TIME, July 21), CRB's communiqué showed that the U.S. had won the first big engagement in the Battle of the Soil...
When Secretary Wickard boosted and re-boosted food-production goals last fall, he had only hope. The report showed that U.S. farmers are hard at work on the war-time quotas; if they get sufficient labor for the harvests, they will come through...
...Wickard asked for 13% more eggs; the farmers by February had already given him 15%. He asked for 9,000,000 acres of soybeans; the farmers planned to plant 14,000,000. He asked for 8% more corn, to be fed to more hogs and cattle; the farmers promised 5% plus a barley expansion which would make up the difference. Only in peanuts were plantings behind the goals; instead of the 255% increase he asked for, he will...