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...both points Secretary Wickard backtracked last week. Conditions had changed in eight months, said he: day by day the hard facts of war were coming home to the U.S. Now Wickard urged the repeal of the 110% farm ceiling price-100% is enough. Moreover, he offered to approve an OPA ceiling on livestock prices provided farmers are protected against low prices. The hoped-for result would be to ease the squeeze between Henderson's ceiling on retail meats and Wickard's refusal to fix prices on the animals that packers...
Speech. Farmer Wickard had debated for two weeks with Secretary Wickard about the speech announcing his change of mind. Said he to fellow farmers...
Thus Administrator Wickard, much in the same tone as Leon Henderson (see col 3.), said in effect that meat prices must drop considerably below this week's level. This was a further clue that the Administration is leading up to a new anti-inflation program that will provide subsidies, lower farm price ceilings and some kind of wage adjustment. On one front peace had been made, but Wickard threw down the gauntlet for another feud with the farm bloc...
...real dirt farmer, Wickard operates 380 acres near Camden, Ind., where he raises hogs, corn, wheat...
...farmers Claude Wickard was saying the same thing (see col. 2). Preacher Henderson and Wickard at last seemed to be taking texts out of the same book...