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...pulp used to make U.S. newsprint acts much like the juvenile hormone that young bugs secrete. This hormone keeps the bugs immature until they are ready for metamorphosis; only after its flow is stopped can the bugs become adult. When the insects come in contact with the paper, they absorb the hormonelike chemical through their feet and antennae...
...costing users $20 million a month to carry in inventory. Many warehousers may continue ordering steel just to be safe, but take advantage of a steel industry practice: the right to cancel an order without penalty right up to the time the mills actually start executing it. Automakers, who absorb 12% of the nation's steel output, plan to work down their 80-to 90-day stockpiles slowly, thus lessening the economic impact; General Motors will take six months to return to its usual 20-day supply, and Chrysler will stretch the shrinkage over four or five months...
...President immediately pre-empted prime TV time to distribute credit. "All America is grateful to these men you see beside me," said he-though Abel and Cooper looked far too weary to absorb anything as intangible as gratitude. Added Johnson: "The welfare of the American people-the needs of freedom in Viet Nam and in every continent-took precedence over any other consideration or interest or desire." The long, long stalemate, he suggested charitably, had not been "so the union would win, or the companies would win-but that the nation would win. And the American nation...
...Common Market countries ($1.4 billion in 1964) is threatened by the community's drift toward protective tariffs. But Europe is not the whole world; as other nations improve their diets and elevate their tastes, they may open huge new markets for U.S. farm products. Even so, they could absorb only a fraction of the 5 to 10% year-in, year-out overproduction of U.S. agriculture...
...They already have to absorb the current 75? subsidy. The increase, added to the basic support price of $1.25, would guarantee farmers a $2.50-per-bushel price for wheat they grow under federal acreage allotments...