Word: farming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly regretted his anger, tried to get word to Jim Kieran that all was forgiven. The other Kierans said they had no idea where Jim was. Friends thought they knew. When the Kierans let their Irish get the better of them, they generally retire to Helen's Connecticut farm to cool...
...before the Pennsylvania Society of New York) again postponed definition of his Farm Policy, declared the objectives of his Business Policy. Best lines: "Stop being half way for a sort of creeping socialism and half way for private enterprise. Get down on one side of the fence. ... If any businessman violates the law name him, indict him, convict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group into disrepute and discouragement. . . . Admit that excessive public expenditures have to be tapered off gradually. And start doing it. Start just a trend toward solvency...
Last week the names of a lot of people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...
Meanwhile Hare Dewey, topping all G. O. P. popularity polls, perfectly groomed and well advised, was on his way to Minneapolis to make.a speech on the farm problem before 12,000 people-and a national radio audience. Of the farm problem he made no mention, but his speech was a bull's-eye. Failure to give the people jobs, economic despair, defeatism-with these Mr. Dewey debited the New Deal, averred that business abuses can be cured without creating Government abuses...
Hybrid seed costs about twice as much as ordinary cornseed, but yields increases of 10% to 40% per acre-increases so huge in farm eyes that one group of farm publications declared: "Hybrid corn is the most spectacular and far-reaching agricultural development of this generation. It ranks in importance with the invention of the telephone and the internal combustion engine. ... In the midst of economic transition, most people have overlooked the transition in food production technique, of which hybrid corn is the forerunner...