Over-Fulfilled Expectations: A Life and an Era in Rural AmericaPurdue University Press, 2002 - 316 Seiten During the 1920s, the United States, suddenly aware of its potential following success in World War I, offered bright promise to its youth and especially to its rural youth. Harold Breimyer, the author of this memoir, was one of those rural youth- an Ohio farm boy. In this evocative memoir, told in the third person, Breimyer recounts how he and his fellows were encouraged to form high expectations for themselves, and how they fulfilled them. |
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... dollar or less , a price his parents could afford . A wind - up version had a tag of two or three dollars , which was more than their means . A little later he begged for a baseball and bat . He thought maybe the family's minister could ...
... dollar or less , a price his parents could afford . A wind - up version had a tag of two or three dollars , which was more than their means . A little later he begged for a baseball and bat . He thought maybe the family's minister could ...
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... dollars by hauling , in their farm wagons , gravel from local pits . The wagons were fitted with a special gravel bed . Their floor boards , six inches wide , could be removed singly , allowing the gravel to fall on the center of the ...
... dollars by hauling , in their farm wagons , gravel from local pits . The wagons were fitted with a special gravel bed . Their floor boards , six inches wide , could be removed singly , allowing the gravel to fall on the center of the ...
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... then stumbles to convert the ratio to dollars , Harold Breimyer retorts instantly that of course he has $ 315 billion in mind . All he does is divide the GNP figure by 4 , getting 1.05 , multiply by 3 , Hometown in the 1920s 19.
... then stumbles to convert the ratio to dollars , Harold Breimyer retorts instantly that of course he has $ 315 billion in mind . All he does is divide the GNP figure by 4 , getting 1.05 , multiply by 3 , Hometown in the 1920s 19.
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... dollars received were a welcome addition to Grandma's meager in- come , which in her older years was almost confined to cream and egg money plus the few dollars her daughters sent her from Dayton . Not least of Grandma's contributions ...
... dollars received were a welcome addition to Grandma's meager in- come , which in her older years was almost confined to cream and egg money plus the few dollars her daughters sent her from Dayton . Not least of Grandma's contributions ...
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... dollars , an enormous amount as viewed at the time . Voluntary contributions nevertheless paid only a small fraction of the cost of rebuilding . Owing to the debt he incurred , when prices of farm products collapsed following war's end ...
... dollars , an enormous amount as viewed at the time . Voluntary contributions nevertheless paid only a small fraction of the cost of rebuilding . Owing to the debt he incurred , when prices of farm products collapsed following war's end ...
Inhalt
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College and Depression Years | 73 |
Getting Established in New Deal Washington | 97 |
Reflections on the 1930s after Fifty Years | 108 |
Brainstorming Marketing Services to Agriculture | 195 |
The University of Missouri | 210 |
Extension Education in Public Affairs | 218 |
Policy Making in the 1970s | 226 |
Oil Energy and the Supply and Price of Land | 233 |
Who Will Control U S Agriculture? | 241 |
The 1920s Deja Vu | 248 |
Nominal Retirement | 266 |
Personal Tranquility 19361941 | 119 |
Farm Policy for Social Reform 19361941 | 124 |
Commodity Interests and Supply Management | 145 |
Wartime Interlude | 151 |
An Advancing Professional Career | 167 |
A Goulash of Experiences | 183 |
A Resumé | 269 |
A Futuristic Epilogue | 278 |
Biographical Data | 289 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 297 |
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Seite 15 - Merchant of Venice: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: And earthly power doth then show likest
Seite 28 - Over the river and through the wood To Grandmother's house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh Through the white and drifting snow.
Seite 2 - act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law
Seite 109 - met their match. . . . I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.
Seite 24 - from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, “Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Seite 28 - oh a great big fellow, Fruits all ripe and rich and mellow. Everything that's good to eat, More than I can now repeat. That's Thanksgiving.
Seite 28 - Pies of pumpkin, apple, mince, Jams and jellies, peaches, quince, Purple grapes and apples red, Cakes and nuts and gingerbread, That's Thanksgiving.