Reply #70: For industry it may have been

[jwirr]

Nixon who started it but in the 1950s farm policies both of government and agribuz started putting the small family farmers out of business. I suspect it started even before that since the little 40 acre farms moved to 80 acres and then in the 1950s to 180 acres and so on. This move to bigger - better - more - overseas has hit almost every area of economic life in our culture. It comes with capitalism that is operated without concern for people.