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...cutting acreage had flopped. Despite such cuts, farm mechanization, better planting and fertilizing techniques had pushed harvests to the point where ever-increasing surpluses seemed inevitable. When Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan brought out a new plan of control which would, in effect, have permitted the Government to fix the size of the farmer's income right down to the dollar, the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation revolted. It denounced the plan as a "nationalization of agriculture and the distribution system," plumped for a plan that would let the market price have a bigger share in regulating production...
...humility, turned his ebullient cockiness to good account. He showed off his crowd-drawing prowess at close range, played the self-confident candidate to the hilt. Long after he had flown back to São Paulo, a new samba called Adhemar Dá Jeito (Adhemar Will Fix It) blared from Rio's radios...
...could well use the $300,000 or so (before taxes) a comeback fight might bring him. Charles was willing, if not enthusiastic. Said he: "Well, now, I'd like to see him stay what he is-a great champion and a great man. But if they want to fix it up for me to fight him, I'll sure fight...
...Senator Smith would 1) turn over to a committee of generals and admirals the $75 million appropriated to oppose Communism's spread in China, 2) lend strong support to a Free China movement, 3) never recognize the Communist government of Mao Tse-tung. But chiefly he tried to fix U.S. attention on the island of Formosa, which the Nationalist government regards as its last redoubt...
Fallibility. In Port Jervis, N.Y., the repair man called in to fix the cigarette machine at police headquarters found it jammed by ten phony coins. In Powell, Wyo., Patrolman Warren Schrofel, after lecturing to 400 high-school students on traffic problems, paid a $2 fine for parking near a hydrant...