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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he took a good look at the results of last November's Democratic landslide, Michigan Farmer Stanley Yankus Jr. decided to give up his five-year battle against federal crop controls. "The men who were elected to Congress this time," he told his wife Mildred, "would not change these farm laws-they're all for subsidies." So Farmer Yankus applied to Australia ("the least socialistic country in the world")* for an immigration permit and, having won it, last week on his 40th birthday asked the U.S. State Department to issue passports to himself, his wife and their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Reluctant Refugee | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Before he can leave the U.S., Yankus must sell his100-acre farm near Dowagiac in southwestern Michigan, finish paying off $4,562 in penalties levied against him in court by the U.S. Government. His offense: raising for his 5,000 chickens more wheat than he was allowed under the average-quota system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Reluctant Refugee | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Under the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act (first ruled constitutional in 1942 and confirmed by the Supreme Court in a Texas case last week), all farmers in commercial wheat states are bound by quotas if two-thirds of the wheat farmers agree to quotas. Yankus understood the law but opposed it because he 1) did not want the subsidies that go with quotas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Reluctant Refugee | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

From 1954 through 1958, Yankus kept on planting 25 to 35 acres more than his ten-acre allotment. Each year he was fined; each year the Government piled on another penalty, until the total got to $4,562. "I decided to quit," he told a Democrat-controlled House agriculture committee last week, "when it became obvious the fight no longer was with the United States Government but with the people who want something for nothing -the 'gimmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Reluctant Refugee | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Yankus may be disappointed. Though Australia as yet has no acreage controls, a government monopoly markets all wheat, guarantees export prices under quotas, pegs domestic prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Reluctant Refugee | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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