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...asked its farmers for more cotton and more wheat. Today, Claude Wickard's whole idea is to grow less cotton, less wheat and more food. He wants to make dairy products, poultry and vegetables basic crops, as important in the nation's economy as cotton, wheat, tobacco, corn and rice. He wants an over abundance of them because he is satisfied that the national income will grow up to buy it. He sees a chance to put the U.S. on a proper diet for the first time in all its history. He believes that "food will...
...eastern Kansas the corn crop sprouted. Farmers looked for a record-breaking yield. Then, for six long weeks, Kansas baked in a drought. Pastures began to turn brown. Parched cornfields drooped. Worried farmers squinted at the sky. One day last week, across the Middle West clouds swept, rain fell, soaking the thirsty earth with one to five inches of water. A huge 1941 corn crop was made. J. C. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture, exclaimed: "The greatest blessing the State has received in ten years...
...defense. That Martinique is defended only by an old washbasin of an aircraft carrier, the Béarn, and a first-rate light cruiser, the Emile Bertin, whose crews cried when they heard that France had capitulated to the Germans and who since then have hoed beans and corn ashore and bickered angrily about Vichy's waverings. He knows that the total French defending force comprises not more than 4,000 men, more than half native...
...migrés-"A large section of the German emigres [have] failed to realize the deep and irrevocable changes that have come over the German people in the course of the last ten years. . . . We have become the 'alien corn...
...this sorry record, the Treasury's corny sales promotion was in part to blame. But now the corn is being weeded out. Dull posters and literature will be pepped up or ditched. The radio campaign (most successful Treasury promotion so far) is using better talent, shorter commercials. By Sept. 15 the Michigan plan will be working in every State. If it works as well nationally as in Michigan, Washington talk of compulsory savings will prove at least premature...