Word: wickard
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...living. This living, such as it is (average annual cash income of each U. S. cotton grower: around $400), has always depended in good part on exports. The export market is virtually closed for the duration of the war, if not for good. Last month Secretary of Agriculture Wickard announced that his policy would be based on the assumption that it is closed for good (TIME, Jan. 27). He would not only boost the domestic market, as the Council is trying to do, but reduce cotton acreage and divert the South's land and energies to other crops. Last...
...Indiana's Purdue University last week, Henry Wallace's successor, Indianan Claude Raymond Wickard, served notice on the cotton industry that as far as the Department of Agriculture is concerned, America's choice has now been made. He reminded his audience that the decline of the U. S. farmers' export market long antedates Hitler: it began when the rest of the world began to grow corn, wheat & cotton of its own. Said the new Secretary: "There are two bales of cotton in the world today for every bale that will probably be used in the current...
Both Agriculture and the Cotton Textile Institute have long sought new uses for cotton. To their promotional efforts (rather than to defense, which accounted directly for only 300,000 bales) were due last year's record 8,000,000-bale domestic market. But Secretary Wickard looked beyond the laboratory for his "agricultural adjustment." It involved the New Deal's No. 1 pre-defense friend: the ill-clad, ill-housed "third of a nation...
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was expected to stay; so were Secretaries Harold Ickes (Interior), Claude Wickard (Agriculture). With labor actually working under Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Mme. Frances Perkins was slated for an ouster from the Labor Department. Some labor leader, perhaps Teamsters' Dan Tobin, would take her place...
...President Roosevelt's cabinet appointments last summer included all but one of the following: 1. Stimson for Woodring (War). 2. Jackson for Murphy (Attorney-General). 3. Wickard for Wallace (Agriculture). 4. Walker for Farley (Postmaster General). 5. Knox for Edison (Navy...