Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes the Derby has been almost bashed in. Once Cobb found himself $196,000 in the red with $2,400 on hand. He haggled all one night with creditors, got 17 moratorium agreements. Now he says his credit rating is AAA, unlimited...
...acres planted to cotton, the Agriculture Department announced last week. Next day the War Food Administration prepared to relax its hold on cotton sales, left farmers free to sell all they could harvest. No longer must planters pay an 8?-a-lb. penalty for all sales above their AAA marketing quotas...
...Simons is a tough economist of the old liberal school who believes that price fixing and restriction are just as bad when practiced by big Government (as in the case of the AAA) as when practiced by big business. Last year he won fame among brother economists when he smashed and hacked away at the spending theories of New Deal Economist Alvin Hansen. In the present article he gives his own postwar program: Its points...
...Washington there was general agreement that Chester Davis was an excellent choice for the job. Son of an Iowa tenant farmer, he has been, successively, a farm laborer, farm owner, farm journal editor, state agricultural commissioner (Montana), farm lobbyist, and (from 1933 to 1936) head of the old AAA...
...Tuesday he announced that even wheat (of which there were 1,613 million bushels on hand last fall), is no longer superabundant, declared the sky the limit on wheat growing this year, removed all penalties from wheat grown in 1942 in excess of AAA quotas...