<span>An effective bureaucracy demands reliability of response and strict devotion to regulations. Such devotion to the rules leads to their transformation into absolutes; they are no longer conceived as relative to a set of purposes. This interferes with ready adaptation under special conditions not clearly envisaged by those who drew up the general rules.</span>
In 1939, its first year of operation, the FCIC insured 165,775 farms and disbursed 2.6 million more bushels in indemnities than it collected in premiums. In 1940 the agency began insuring cotton as well as wheat.
The attack on the Lusitania brought the US closer to clan war in 1915 because Germany found a new way to attack, using a weapon called the U-boat, and they wanted to put an end to that. Early events in 1917 that cause President Wilson to declare war war events in Russia and the Zimmerman note.
