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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...softer. The President made only two specific recommendations: 1) expansion of the long-term soil bank "conservation reserve" to 60 million acres from the present 28 million, and 2) a new wheat program that would combine repeal of all wheat production controls with a lower support price, based on market prices rather than on the outdated "parity" formula. A new wheat program was "imperatively needed," said Ike-the present program is costing the Federal Government $1,000 a minute, $1.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Solutions, Anyone? | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...President did not insist on his own wheat program. He would, he said, "approve any constructive solution that the Congress wishes to develop," whether leading to "greater freedom or more regimentation," and whether based on market prices or parity-a wide departure from Secretary Benson's old down-with-controls, parity-must-go war cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Solutions, Anyone? | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...that left 70 farmers and 50 police injured. By general agreement, France's farmers had legitimate cause for complaint: although they make up 25% of the population, they get only 10% of the national income.* De Gaulle's abolition of a parity index hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood by right-wing agitators who broke up their gathering with cries of "Vive null and "Algerie Française !" The head of the farmers' group was himself stoned to unconsciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Defeat for the Right | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Have taken less than 1.5% of the auto market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...Have grabbed about 25% of the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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