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...Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...
...latest price boost was demanded by Chile, where Anaconda and Kennecott mine a critical 14% of the world's supply. The Chilean government, which now channels no more than one-third of its copper output to the U.S. understandably opposes U.S. producers' efforts to keep the price down because it gets a cut of company profits. Many U.S. industries also feel that the only way to get more of the metal is to lure Chilean copper back from Europe by matching Europe's price. The copper shortage in the U.S. has spurred use of substitutes; e.g., radio...
Copper producers are racing to boost output, expect worldwide capacity to increase by 229,500 short tons in 1956, or 8.3%, plus another 150,000 tons lost by strikes last year. By 1958 world copper capacity should be 15.7% above the 1955 level (2,928,000 tons). In Washington last week Government agencies were uniformly hopeful that the copper squeeze will end by midyear as a result of increased supply and slackening demand in some industries. However, few users put off orders in the hope that plentiful copper is just around the corner. Even without strikes, many argued, long-term...
Religion, too, has received a boost by the construction of a new chapel. As the peculiar structure of the building indicates, the Institute takes no sides on religion, but offers the chapel to each religious group for its own purposes...
...whether or not the President has adhered to the course which is supported by Democrats and Republicans alike. Typically, the Stevenson solution for the farm problem is merely to try harder than the Republicans have tried, using any available means--including 90 percent price supports if necessary--to boost the farmer's income. The G.O.P. "made off with the Democratic farm plank" in 1952, Mr. Stevenson contends, but "returned it immediately after the election." On other main issues of his current campaign, such as the Administration's "giveaway" of public resources, its favoritism toward big business, and its "rattling...