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Over -Normal Granary. Bipartisan Headache
Kemler, Edgar | February 18, 1956 issue

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For three years, the farmer has been subjected to a price-cost squeeze designed to reduce surpluses which in the eyes of the U.S. Administration suggest undesirable "giveaways." To the farmer, on the other hand, there can be no surpluses so long as two-thirds of the world, not to mention one-third of the United States, is suffering from dietary deficiency. Furthermore, he can't understand why his net income has declined by 25 percent when the cold war prosperity has raised nearly everybody else's income by 7 percent. Such reflections help to explain why the farmer continues to fill government warehouses with surpluses, even though such surpluses seemingly depress market prices.

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SURPLUS agricultural commodities; COST; FARMERS; DEPRESSIONS; COLD War; MARKET prices
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