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...passed by the Senate, the measure guaranteed wheat farmers who agree to limit their acreage a support price of $2 per bu. for wheat sold for domestic human consumption, and $1.55 per bu. for export wheat. Textile mills would receive a subsidy of about 60 to allow them to buy U.S. grown cotton at the world price of 240 per lb. Cotton growers, while receiving a 300-per-lb. support price, would be paid a bonus for reducing plantings...
...military, and can be solved by the application of more force, when the entire American experience in Vietnam undercuts this theory. With the most modern equipment and the most professional advisers in the world the South Vietnamese have been losing badly. What is needed is not more helicopters, bu the realization that the United States has bungled seriously in south Vietnam, and that at this point the best policy may be to cut our losses...
Thanks to greater use of fertilizer, in combination with better seeds and pesticides, an acre that yielded 46 bu. of corn in the 1950s is now good for 64 bu. To demonstrate their axiom that $1 worth of fertilizer adds $3 in crop value, salesmen like to plant test plots along heavily trafficked highways in farm areas. Says Marketing Director J. P. Ekberg of Olin Mathieson, which operates the world's biggest fertilizer plant just outside Houston: "When the corn is twice as high as the corn growing next to it by the Fourth of July, people can easily...
...wheat, and usually went into the market only to shore up its satellites or because it was cheaper to ship Canadian grain across the Pacific to Siberia than send its own wheat the 7,000-mile length of Russia. At that, the Soviets never bought more than 14.8 million bu. a year...
...Exterminating Angel, one of the strongest of Buñuel's many strong films, relates a harrowing parable of salvation and damnation in which the grand old anarchist pours all the vials of his wrath upon the idle rich and the mother church and in the process disports a religious imagination seldom paralleled in its demonian ferocity since the visions of Hieronymus Bosch...