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President Eisenhower's illness and convalescence brought no visible damage in the domestic sphere. The Administration's goals and standards were set and clear. When circumstances called for the generation of new policy (e.g., the soil bank program), Eisenhower aides went ahead with the necessary plans...
...Soil-Bank Plan. The heart of the President's program, Benson testified, is the "soil-bank" plan, designed to cut plantings of wheat and cotton by perhaps 20%. The bank would consist of an "acreage reserve" and a "conservation reserve," which would cost the taxpayers $1 billion over the next three years. Farmers choosing to join the acreage reserve would take specific acres temporarily out of production, receiving compensation based on a percentage of the normal yield. Compensation would be paid, Benson testified, in a novel way: the farmers would get certificates redeemable by the Commodity Credit Corp...
...have $7 billion worth of surplus products in the storage bins of the country ... In my judgment, the rigid farm supports contributed toward the building up of that surplus. I do not feel that rigid farm supports are the answer to the problem. I do think that the soil bank which they are now advocating is one element in reaching a solution...
...Russians were scarcely gone from Burmese soil when an invitation went flying from Rangoon to London urging Britain's last Governor General in Burma, Sir Hubert Ranee, to come and spend a happy two-week vacation with his former subjects. When he got to Burma, Sir Hubert was awarded the title Agga Maha Thray Sithu, meaning Very High Big Honorable Officer of the King. Similarly honored was another servant of Empire: Britain's onetime Laborite Colonial Undersecretary, Lord Ogmore. And just to show who was who's beloved brother, the Burmese gave the Duke of Edinburgh...
When U.S. children attend grammar school, they learn from their history textbooks that Americans have squandered their natural resources by slaughtering buffalo, raping forests, polluting streams, and plowing up soil-holding grasslands. As the youngsters grow old enough to read Government news releases in the papers, they are reassured that under scientific Government management, our countrymen are developing the skill of harvesting, rather than mining, American wildlife, timber, and land. Whatever its shortcomings in practice, most citizens come to believe that through planned conservation we may have our resources and reap them...