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...nation's two million cotton growers were shocked. To a House subcommittee for postwar agriculture. Claude E. Wickard, the mild Secretary of Agriculture, recommended that the Government with draw its cash support of cotton prices. In place of this political handout, Secretary Wickard proposed a nonpolitical plan to end the lopsided one-crop economy of the South. His proposal: let the Government pay growers a direct subsidy in stead of the present indirect subsidy of the parity system (TIME, Oct. 9), which gives growers "loans" of 20? a lb., at the present parity price...
...would be based on the extent to which cotton growers 1) replaced cotton with other crops; 2) mechanized farms to cut costs. Thus, Southern farmers would have a cash incentive to cut down cotton acreage, produce cotton cheaply enough to stand on its own competitive feet. As a clincher, Wickard would end the subsidy in five or ten years, cut cotton growers completely from the public purse...
...cinema career after three years of retirement received some nicely timed publicity, courtesy of something called the Artists and Sculptors Institute. Bracketing her with Cinemactresses Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and Jane Russell, the Institute called Sylvia one of the "most exciting women in the history of motion pictures." Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture, found it was true what they say about eating aboard trains these days. En route to Mexico, unable even to reach the dining car, he sent a telegram ahead to Texas Agriculture Commissioner J. E. McDonald, asked for twelve sandwiches, six pints of milk and six bottles...
...Because we have plenty now, it does not necessarily follow that we will have plenty later." Easygoing Secretary of Agriculture Wickard broadcast a warning that, despite recent point reductions on canned vegetables, the efforts of spare-time gardeners are still essential. (Last year 42% of the nation's vegetables were grown in Victory gardens.) Concerning meat, jut-jawed Chet Bowles flirted with a prediction: if this year's crops of livestock feed are only normal, meat rationing on the old basis, perhaps slightly less severe, will return by next winter. Should the feed crops fail, the meat shortages...
...invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History of the Westward Movement), Ada Comstock, Dean Sperry, the Master of Kirkland House, and Mike of Mike's Club (with portable dispensary) would be there for obvious reasons. You might even come across Claude Wickard, grubbing about in a bean patch...