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With this in mind, the committeemen shed coats and went to work, blocking out a Senate version that contained the soil-bank program President Eisenhower had asked for (but no advance payments). Plagued by conditioned political reflexes, some members could not resist adding filigree. The outstanding ornament: a proviso that growers of feed grain (oats, barley, etc.) who do not comply with 1957 acreage allotments receive special supports based on those the President has recommended for commercial corngrowers who exceed allotments...
...land where the U.S. grows its food and fiber, the majestic checkerboard of spring was beginning to form. The plains and rolling hills of Illinois and Iowa, where farmers were turning the soil for this year's crop of corn, were a geometric pattern of black and brown and green. On to the West and South, through Kansas and into Texas, the spreading, endless fields of wheat were coming green and beginning to ripple softly in the wind. In the Deep South, across the bottom of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, green shoots were peeking out of the ridges...
...gone through what the farmers are going through today." Asked to define her role in shaping the destiny of the American farmer, she answered without hesitation: "To be a true and loyal companion to my husband, be interested in his work, do away with surpluses and get the soil bank passed...
...also zigged on the soil bank. Last fall he was opposed to it and called it a "land rental scheme"; this year, faced with declining prices and even bigger surpluses, he changed his mind, agreed that it should be the heart of the Administration's 1956 farm program. Despite his opposition to high, rigid price supports, he has been willing to promise a firm 82.5% of parity on most basic crops in an effort to prevent Congress from passing a rigid 90% bill. Having learned the politic art of zigzag, he can be philosophical about it. At staff meetings...
...though rewarding. But the book offers undivided nostalgic charm in its portrait of the carriage-trade world of pre-Civil War New York. And for those who relish tranquillity recollected in tranquillity, it affords a rare glimpse of the quietest fecundity in nature, an artist sinking roots in the soil of his creative imagination...