Word: conservationism
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Farms. Wendell Willkie pledged himself to maintain 1) soil conservation; 2) commodity loans ("despite some inherent dangers"); 3) rural electrification; 4) farm credit; 5) crop insurance. Above all he stressed the argument that increased payrolls for industrial workers would mean an increased consumption of the farmer's produce.
To maintain the Wagner Labor Relations Act and the Wage-Hour law; to expand the Social Security Act; to give a place in the Cabinet to the Northwest; to continue soil conservation, commodity loans, rural electrification, farm credit, crop insurance; call a national conference of farm, labor and industry to...
Agriculture. Soil-conservation payments, commodity-surplus loans, encouragement of farm purchase by tenants, the food-stamp program, "some such" formula as the two-price system in the twice-vetoed McNary-Haugen Bill. "The platform offers no magic formula. The problem is far too complex. ... It does constitute a promise that...
Conservation. Regulation of the annual rate of lumbering, expansion of forest reserves, reduction of forest taxation (since a high tax rate encourages wasteful cutting), assumption by the Government of half the cost of abating loss from fire, insects and disease.
This week Frank Broker was at work for his tribe and the State, giving rice conservation its first trial in Minnesota. At Cass Lake, at the town of Mahnomen, at many another where wild rice is sold to brokers, Chippewas and whites are celebrating the new moon of Mah-No...