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...Parity is an abstraction that the Department of Agriculture computes every month on the basis of information it gets from 20,000 reporters: 1) the current prices of every major farm crop; 2) the costs of 174 things the farmer buys -food, clothing, furnishings, seed, feed, machinery, fertilizer. The figures are averaged by States, then nationally, then compared with figures that show what farmers got for their produce and paid out for necessities between Aug. 1, 1909 and July 31, 1914, a period of lush agricultural prosperity. The object of parity: to give farmers the same purchasing power now that...
...league baseball for 1943. But the small minor leagues-where players are young, most games are played at night, and bus transportation is the mainstay-have little hope of survival. If the bush leagues fold, big-league clubs will be forced to let their farm systems go to seed, ending the annual harvest of young players. But, conscious of their obligation to "civilian morale and the boys overseas" (as well as to their own investments), club owners intend to go ahead until the Government says "Stop...
...First seed of the grievance was sown following Britain's only general (nationwide) strike in 1926, when Baldwin's flustered Parliament passed the Trades Disputes Act. The Act outlawed all general strikes. Because its terms were so vague, it allowed the courts scope for declaring almost any strike illegal. The trade unions found it an elastic defense against their plans and programs...
...Half of Arizona's cantaloupes have spoiled in the fields. Ten thousand acres of costly alfalfa went to seed uncut. The State's output of long staple cotton, threefourths of the U.S. supply and used for parachute web and machine-gun belts, is threatened. Casa Grande valley farmers paid $4 a day for workers they used to get for $40 a month-and saw those farm hands go off to $1.12-an-hour jobs building camps for 10,000 relocated Japanese. Most of the Japanese are farmers from California; now they sit idly in the shade, watching...
...concentration camp: "You cannot have just a youth organization. You need older people to guide it. Politics is a strange thing, but it is practical. Here there is too much vagueness. I do not mean this Assembly is not worth while. It may, and I think will, sow a seed. But it will be a small seed...