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...Soviets dickered separately with U.S. grain companies, and the Agriculture Department did almost nothing to monitor the purchases. Thus the Soviets were able to keep U.S. businessmen and farmers in the dark about how much grain they were buying at bargain prices that were kept low by Government export subsidies. This lapse occurred even though the dimensions of the deal should have been apparent to the department. Executives of three major grain dealers-Continental Grain Co., Cargill Inc. and Louis Dreyfus Corp.-told the Jackson subcommittee last week that they had separately notified Assistant Secretary Carroll G. Brunthaver...
Despite predictions of a bumper crop, export controls will stay in place until the fall to prevent a rush by foreigners to buy U.S. farm goods at bargain prices with undervalued American dollars...
...series of five-year economic programs initiated by President Chung Hee Park in 1961, Korea has imitated Japan's post-World War II climb to prosperity by deliberately moving from comparatively simple industries into increasingly complex ones. Park built up power plants and a transportation infrastructure, then pushed export industries which took advantage of his country's low cost of labor. Soon electronics boomed, and South Korea today exports phonographs, FM radios, television sets and tape recorders. In fact, most of Japan's Sony black and white TV sets are now actually manufactured in Korea...
...capture of Lo is the most impressive victory to date in a campaign launched by the U.S. to clean up the Golden Triangle. For centuries the region's residents had consumed most of its flourishing opium crop, although some was always set aside for export...
...hand in hand with the apotheosis of the new in art came the elevation of the artist to the status of national hero, the rival of TV and movie stars as part of a culture boom that heralded American art as prestigious commodity for export. But the point of these artists was the lack of point...