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The Role Of The Federal Government In The Industrial Expansion Of Utah During World War Two, Anthony Thomas Cluff

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

For ten years the American economy had been depressed. Unemployment haunted economic planners, low production plagued manufacturers, low incomes impoverished wage earners, and everyone hoped for the dawn of new prosperity. It was as if recovery had waited for an untrodden decade to arrive before heralding the new day. The New Deal brought Social Security for old age, insurance for bank deposits, new guarantees for labor, and a score of public work projects, but it did not bring economic recovery.

An Economic Study Of Adjustment Possibilities In Farm Organization And Resource Allocation In The Sevier River Valley In Piute County, Utah, 1961, Gordon L. Langford

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Problems that confront the farmer are varied, but one of the most important is the combination of his possible enterprises so that maximum financial return from farming is obtained. This problem has been made more important in the last decade by the severity of the agricultural price-cost squeeze.

Farmers' total net income, on a national basis, has declined from more than 16 billion dollars to about 13 billion dollars. In Utah, total net farm income has dropped from 91.3 million dollars in 1951 to 36.5 million dollars in 1961. Average net income of Utah farm operators dropped from $5.89 per …

An Economic Study Of Grain Corn, Sweet Corn, And Silage Corn In Northern Utah, 1962, Guy A. Erikson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In 1959 there were 49,006 acres of corn grown in the state of Utah. Included in this were 4,232 acres of grain corn, 38,770 acres of silage corn , and 4,470 acres of sweet corn. The remaining acres of corn were used for pasture, cut as fodder, or any miscellaneous use.