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...both praise and criticism for the new bill. The deciding factor in his mind was its soil-bank provision, which offers $1,250,000,000 in payments to farmers who agree to take crop lands out of production and place the acreage under soil-building cover crops or trees. The soil bank, said Ike, will "check current additions to our price-depressing, market-destroying surplus stocks of farm products. It is a concept rich with promise for improving our agricultural situation...
After a conference with the President, Ezra Benson announced plans for making immediate soil-bank payments to farmers who withdraw land from crop production this year. Benson's move was specifically authorized by the new bill, although Congress had refused to go along with the Administration's request for 1956 payments to farmers contracting to enter the soil-bank program in 1957. Benson's schedule of payments was generous: if based on the average yield over the last five years, it would offer $22 for each acre of wheat withheld from production (estimated per acre market value...
...Falls, Minn, had become a grim effort to survive. Through the freezing winter Richter, 31, cared for his six small children so that his wife could clerk in a Fergus Falls clothing store. When spring came he went into his fields at 4 a.m., stayed until midnight fighting the soil for a fuller yield. But the bills piled...
...members should seek by radio propaganda of the foulest character, directed from its capital month after month, to stir up terrorist activity in the territory of another. There can be no confidence, still less friendship, while this continues. "It is sometimes suggested that a NATO base on Greek soil should suffice for our needs. This is not so." There might be occasions when Britain alone or Britain and its Baghdad Pact partners, might have to act in the Middle East in situations which do not involve NATO. Eden, in the face of criticism abroad and at home, was arguing that...
...cased in a padding of sociological fat. Life, Aran Islander O'Flaherty seems to say, can only be understood in terms of death. Like many another Irishman, he sees the skull beneath the skin, just as his starveling heroes see the sharp rocks gnaw through the thin soil. ("I wish you a happy death," cries one after another of his characters, as if the wish were the greatest thing life had to offer.) To underline his point that man's nature is animal, O'Flaherty has written of hawks, cows, rockfish, conger eels and water hens; their...