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...urge American consumers to eat more cheese," states Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, "It is a rich source of food elements that are vital to good health." To encourage consumers to eat more cheese the Department of Agriculture has designated cheese as a Victory Food Special for the two-week period, August...
...full-dress patriotic campaign to keep farmers from'planting even the legal acreage of wheat was launched last week by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. He was too tactful to say that war has turned the 55,000,000-acre minimum allotment fixed by law into a white elephant (TIME, June 22), but what he did say was nonetheless plain English...
During the next few months before all U.S. winter wheat gets planted, Mr. Wickard's plea will be supplemented by a rash of posters, radio plugs and personal exhortations from county agents to wheat planters. By fall the campaign may also be supported by some good, hard cash in the form of incentive prices (still undetermined) for crops like soybeans and flax that are sorely needed...
...Wickard hopes his appeal to the farmers' patriotism may cut wheat planting by 15,000,000 acres. But the profit motive is working hard against him. The farm bloc has fixed the crop-loan law so that farmers can unload their wheat on the Government at $1.14 a bushel v. 98? last year and 65? the year before...
Five Into One. Leon Henderson also foresaw the need and the inevitability. He had clashed with McNutt and Davis over wages, with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard on farm prices. Economist Henderson well knew the unbalanced house-of-cards structure of the U.S. economy after two years of war strains and stresses. He had his own ideas on how to manage the economy. But he was willing to forget them, if somebody would lay down an over-all policy to which he could sensibly gear price control...