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Secretary of Agriculture Wickard is worried about the coming shortage of tractors. There is talk in Washington of a ration plan for heavy farm machinery. Military needs are gobbling so much steel that next year there will not be enough tractors to go around: merely to replace those worn out, 125,000 new ones will be needed. If the U.S. population of horses and mules continues to dwindle at its present rate, at least another 50,000 tractors will be needed. (In 1940, tractors on farms increased...
From first-year sales of eight carloads, the Davidsons have built up a demand which this year will take 1,300 cars of their grit-enough for 39,000,000 chickens. Thanks to Claude Wickard's program for increased farm production, next year's demand looks even bigger. So the Davidsons, faced with the need for expansion, went to OPM and argued that they were in the defense business, too. OPM finally agreed...
Sirs: Your good reporting of national and world news is especially appreciated by many of us out here in the Far East. We can keep in touch with the national scene even when we live in a foreign country. Your . . . sketches of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and Under Secretary of State Welles are cases in point. By such writing and by displayed advertisements you keep us itinerant Americans from being strangers with our own land when we return periodically...
...five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage of repair parts, dealers would not promise deliveries, and in Washington Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard was pleading in vain for priorities for farm machinery...
...Last week Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard said that Great Britain must have a billion dollars worth of U.S. food in the next five months...