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...bales on the market without once breaking the price below 12?. In the process, he made the Treasury a fat profit in futures, and infuriated Broker Clayton who, for the first time in years, had to watch someone else make the market. Johnston also got $363,002,57 in AAA checks for the acres he abandoned from...
...Robert Joseph Flaherty will be 57 this month but he has not finished his work. In 1939 another master of documentaries, Pare Lorentz, who made The River and The Plow That Broke the Plains for the U. S. Government, cabled Flaherty an invitation to film The Land for AAA. In the past 18 months Producer Flaherty has traveled some 20,000 miles about the U. S., making pictures on soil erosion. The Land will be completed this spring...
Composer, musician, and able master of ceremonies, Professor W. Barton Leach introduced the faculty panel as the AAA, Associated Alleged Adults. They were Dean James Landis, Erwin N. Griswold, Professor Mary H. McGuire, Professor Milton ("poppa") Katz and Judge Calvert Magruder. The ladies represented the wives of the faculty...
...Perkins scheme: farmers who wish to plant less than their 1941 AAA acreage allotments will receive a bonus of stamps, good for cotton products at any retail store. The bonus: $25 in stamps for each acre voluntarily put out of production. Estimated cost of the scheme: $50,000,000. By cutting production and upping consumption in one stroke, the plan would attack King Cotton's trouble from both ends, put the two more nearly into balance...
Back on the masthead went Founder Wright's long-lapsed slogan: "Farmers, Write for Your Paper." Back came Founder Wright's crusading policy. Prairie Farmer has had a hand in every important agricultural movement of the last 31 years, including the Grange (national farmers' fraternity), AAA, dairy cooperatives. From 40,000 readers in 1909, Editor Butler has built up its circulation...