The six million U.S. farmers took in $19 billion last year. That was $3.5 billion above 1942 and more than twice as good as their $8.5 billion average for the five years 1935-39-This bumper harvest of dollars was partly due to higher prices. For their produce farmers collected about 20% more than they charged in 1942. At year's end farm prices had soared to 15% above "parity," and the ill-famed farm lobby, with nothing much remaining to fight for, was left brooding over new formulas for a bigger and better "parity."
But the...
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