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...will be many years before the market can be expanded sufficiently to meet supply, the solution to the problem must come thorugh limitation of production. On this point, both parties agree that the soil bank is a partial solution. Under this program, originally a Democratic idea, farmers are paid to take land out of production, thus cutting crop sizes and raising prices...
...soil bank is a direct handout which merely reduces the surplus wilthout attacking the basic problem. Just how much it affects production is, moreover, questionable. At best it is a temporary measure which drains millions from the economy by literally paying men for doing nothing...
...Republican farm platform, unfortunately, stops once the inefficient farmers have been forced off the market. The soil bank and flexible supports will have cut production and the number of producers. But there is no concrete proposal on what to do with the unemployed farmer. To avoid a depression, as well as for humanitarian impulses, these men must be re-employed...
...SOIL-BANK CONTRACTS for 1957 will probably fall short of goal, at least for wheat. As of September 28, one week before deadline, farmers had signed to take only 4,300,000 acres of winter wheat out of production v. some 10 million acres Agriculture Department considers necessary...
...Hackett on Broadway two seasons ago as the tippling racketeer in Sidney Kingsley's Lunatics and Lovers and signed him for two one-shot shows. After a season of high-flying spectaculars-some right out of left field -Liebman decided to return, with Hackett, to more fertile, familiar soil (other Liebman proteges: Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca). Liebman regards Hackett as the best "take" artist since Caesar, i.e., he reacts strongly to people and things. "With Buddy," says Liebman, "it's usually the 'take' that gets the laugh rather than the joke...