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...that "the day may come when Turkey and Britain will want to act in the Middle East, and Greece will not," would it not be more to the mutual interests of Turkey and Britain for Mr. Menderes to invite Sir Anthony Eden to build a base on the secure soil of Turkey...
...American farmer, as canny a speculator as ever cashed a three-horse parlay, hemmed and hawed about the new soil-bank program served up by Congress in late May, consulted his form charts and then made his decision: a heavy bet on the soil bank to win. Last week, the deadline for the 1956 signup past, the Agriculture Department reported that nearly 500,000 farmers had agreed to take 10,720,749 acres out of production, would thereby reap a cash harvest of $225 million in Government payments come fall. The 1956 bank balance more than satisfied Agriculture Secretary Ezra...
...profit in raising crops for the guaranteed support prices of $1.50 a bushel under acreage control or $1.25 for over allotment corn. Then came the drought. Fiery winds seared crops in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Farmers looked at their parched and wilted fields, hied themselves off to the soil bank, signed on the dotted line and went back home to plow their stunted crops into the earth...
...vetoed the Democrats' boondoggling 90%-of-parity farm bill while farm-state Republicans shuddered, then won passage of a soil-bank farm bill more to his liking. A belated Administration drive to put through a moderate civil-rights bill died virtually unmourned by either party in the Senate last week. Killed earlier because of its involvement with the civil-rights issue: the school-construction bill, primarily because Manhattan's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. had tacked on his highly political desegregation amendment (TIME. July...
...SOIL BANK plan to cut surplus in six basic crops (corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco, rice, peanuts) is off to slow start. Agriculture Department reports that farmers have signed up to take only 2,000,000 acres out of production at cost to Government of $37 million for this year's bank. Goal for next year is 8 million to 15 million acres in bank, with long-term target of 25 million acres annually...