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...store, in the days before the AAA messed the cotton business up with red tape, we sold "salt pork" under name of "bacon," "side bacon," and, to the vulgar, "sow belly." That was the only meat we sold and, naturally, I assume that it is your fatback...
...Copenhagen FAO conference in September, U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd (a onetime AAA administrator) violated State Department instructions by plumping "in principle" for the Orr plan, which would 1) stabilize prices of agricultural commodities on world markets; 2) establish a world food reserve for emergencies, and 3) provide funds to finance disposal of surpluses to needy nations...
...circles. "Five years later," Professor Zimmerman muses, "A large American medical foundation took over, instituted the plan, and got a big hand for it." Similarly, during the early days of the New Deal, he was hooted out of the White House for pointing out several monopolistic aspects of the AAA, a warning he feels is now justified by the agriculture crisis...
Potent Power. Export-Import is now headed by big, blond Wayne Chatfield Taylor, longtime New Dealer (AAA, Treasury, Commerce) and the man who gave Sewell Avery the heave-ho. In financing world reconstruction, his E.I.B. will assume a major role among Government agencies, for there is at present no other Government source which foreign nations can tap for the credits they must have. Until Bretton Woods' International Bank becomes a fact, E.I.B. loans will be a potent power in world politics and trade...
...means an AAA for every industry telling each man what he shall produce and what price he shall get for it, if it means direct government control over every businessman and worker, then full employment will be at worst a kind of socialistic totalitarianism, at best a benevolent form of complete state paternalism...