Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...seems that quiet meditation or strong drink are all that remain for the farmers. The Kennedy program offers them only a streamlined version of the Democratic price support program which has been in effect since the war years. Although the Nixon program sets forth a definite plan to diminish surpluses, it also threatens literally to "abolish the farmers...
When the demand tapered off after Korea, the government stepped in to buy up surplus, to guarantee stable prices, and, in general, to prevent a market crisis. Congress instituted the Soil Bank program to reduce the increasing surplus by paying the farmer to take land out of cultivation...
Operation Consume, the Republican program, offers to repay the farmer in kind for land which he agrees to take out of production. Under this program, no farmer would receive funds from the Federal government. Instead, for example, a wheat-grower will allow his land to lie fallow, receiving the equivalent amount of grain from the Federal storage bin. He would then sell this wheat at market prices...
While reducing the surplus, this program would also insure a stable income for the farmers concerned. When the storage bins reached the desired level, the GOP would institute a long term price support program based on market prices of immediately preceding crop years...
...second part of the Republican program that might threaten the farmer's existence. Termed Operation Safeguard, it calls for "a substantial expansion of the conservation reserve program." Mr. Nixon would ask farmers to withdraw land from production and rent it to the government for periods of three to ten years...