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...protected farmers from disastrous drops in grain prices. Until the early 1970s the Agriculture Department bought farmers' surpluses and stored them temporarily in huge and expensive granaries. The department also paid farmers millions to take some of their land out of production?perhaps the biggest and most expensive support program the U.S. ever had. This all changed when Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz took advantage of the worldwide grain shortage to sell the Government's storage facilities and urged farmers to plant from "fence post to fence post." At the same time, Congress rewrote the farm-support law so that nearly...
...there were more horses and mules than tractors in American farmyards. Now there are 4.4 million tractors on 2.7 million farms. A U.S. farmer today can seed 300 acres of wheat a day, vs. 85 acres in 1950. Meanwhile, land grant state universities, which were started under a program of President Lincoln's, have researched and spread technological breakthroughs. Out of the agricultural experiment stations in the early 1930s came means of cross-pollinating two types of purebred corn. The resulting hybrid was particularly hardy and produced 50% higher yields. Later the Green Revolution, for which U.S. Scientist Norman...
...clinic, at Norfolk General Hospital, will be directed by Drs. Howard Jones Jr. and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, a well-known husband-and-wife obstetrical and gynecological team, as part of the fertility program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. They will use a variation of the technique developed by British Scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. An egg will be removed, through a small incision in the abdomen, from the ovary of a woman whose fallopian tubes are either hopelessly blocked or too damaged to permit natural fertilization. Then it will be placed in a laboratory dish with the husband...
...this autumn. It will contain many exemptions that the public will consider unfair; for example, people with company cars stand to get considerably more gas than ordinary drivers. The sad result of all this: the U.S. has neither a consumption-cutting gasoline tax nor a workable and effective rationing program to fall back on if a shortage suddenly develops...
...from its original plan to take all revenues from the oil windfall profits tax and use them for energy development, mass transit, and help for the poor to pay their energy bills. Instead, the idea now is to spend much of the money on a broad range of federal programs. Says a high Administration official: "The tax is going to raise more money than is needed. Our concern now is that the money is not tied up." This change might well incite new debate in Congress over the embattled windfall profits tax and thus delay passage of Carter...