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WASHINGTON--Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard today demanded an immediate about-face from Farm Bloc opponents of his $100,000,000 incentive payment plan, warning that failure to act before spring planting time will rob the nation of vital war crops...
...FARMERS PRODUCE ONLY 3% OF FARM PRODUCTS GOING TO MARKET. EVERY FARMER KNOWS THAT NEEDED FOOD INCREASE CAN COME ONLY FROM 4,OOO,OOO FARMS PRODUCING 97% OF COMMODITIES GOING TO MARKET AND MAINLY FROM 3,OOO,OOO TOP FARMS THAT PRODUCE 86%. ALL CREDIT TO PRACTICAL FARMER CLAUDE WICKARD FOR REJECTING PARISIUS PLAN...
Czars were now a dime a dozen: the U.S. had Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, Production Czar Donald Nelson, Manpower Czar Paul McNutt, Food Czar Claude Wickard, Rubber Czar William Jeffers. But they were more like Grand Dukes than Czars: under their high-sounding titles, divided authority and lack of direction left them still snarled in invisible red tape...
...Navy. Economic Czar Byrnes had stepped in to cut away the tangle-but no one was sure last week who would enforce the compromise he had laid down. Manpower Czar McNutt began stretching his muscles with a new work-or-fight order-and Congress promptly raised a howl. Czar Wickard was apparently frozen with fright at the horrible food prospects ahead...
After last summer's wasting days of turmoil, Franklin Roosevelt had stepped in with some spectacular reorganizations-appointment of Byrnes and Jeffers, of McNutt and Wickard, a shakeup of WPB. Now, even inside the Administration, observers agreed that this, too, had been a stopgap. The sound effects had been terrific, the visual impression of Olympian lightnings spectacular-but nothing had really been changed. The era of good cheer had run its course; some nasty trouble brewed. The only consolation for plain citizens was that, despite the procrastination and the palace revolutions, the Army somehow grew and the munitions somehow...