Word: wickard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dairymen wanted more money for their milk. This month, through the Federal-State Milk Marketing Agency which controls producer prices in the milkshed, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard upped the price of fluid milk* to $2.65 per cwt. (47 quarts). From August on, the price was to be $2.88. But farmers demanded an average price of $3 per cwt. for all milk, instead of the $2.15 they now get. And that, said Marketing Administrator Nikitas John Cladakis, would drive the price of fluid milk...
...Indiana and Kentucky, farmers used trucks to haul water for their stock. In New York, garden crops were badly damaged, lack of hay and pasturage threatened a shortage of dairy products. Farmers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia met in Richmond, sent Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard a plea for "immediate help." In the Ashland, Va. Herald-Progress Publisher Paul Watkins advertised: "WANTED: One good rain for immediate delivery. . . . No thunder showers, ten-minute gully-washers, easy sprinklers or dust-layers need apply...
...work out plans to improve this situation was the job of the first National Nutrition Conference. Chairman: Federal Security Administrator Paul Vories McNutt. Fellow laborers: Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, who has an expert's knowledge of vitamins. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Nutritionists Russell Morse Wilder of the Mayo Clinic and Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University...
...Earth. According to Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, if everyone in the U.S. ate enough of the right food, we would need to consume "twice as much green vegetables and fruits as we do now . . . 70% more tomatoes and citrus fruits, 35% more eggs, 15% more butter, 20% more milk [to say nothing of meat...
...Said Mr. Wickard: "Egg production is to be increased sufficiently to supply British needs, and in addition furnish the United States with as many eggs as we ever used in the year of greatest egg consumption in the past. We hope to increase milk production enough to supply Britain's need for milk products, and in addition maintain our own consumption at the level of the past four years. The production of canned tomatoes is to be increased by 50% over that of last year, and the production of all types of dried beans [a fair meat substitute...