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...Radio Moscow admitted "alarming" delays in harvesting grain in Kazakhstan, Khrushchev's favorite Central Asian "virgin lands" region, which was counted on to boost this year's grain harvest 6% above 1958's 141 million-ton harvest. Many of the tractors needed to cut the crops before the first snow were out of order for lack of spare parts, grumbled Radio Moscow. Millions of bushels of cut grain were still lying out in the open because thousands of "volunteer" workers had quit in disgust with low wages and Kazakhstan's primitive living conditions. In a similar...
...regulations, not enough on enforcement. Cartels that restrict competition are all too blithely tolerated, says the report, recommending U.S.-style restraints on monopoly. There are far too many subsidies supporting inefficient businesses, e.g., in the alcohol, sugar and flour-milling industries. Farms are often too small to reap the harvest of mechanization, and inefficient tenant farmers are kept in business by state grants. The food distribution system is archaic, encouraging low turnover and high profit margins. The report's solution : a telecommunications system to create a nationwide produce market in which prices can respond to supply and demand...
Swift Visions. With great and often savage wit, the book reduces major philosophical questions to potted, page-long parables. Seryozha, for instance, loses his faith in God (Stalin) because, when he goes out with his school comrades to harvest potatoes, he discovers that the "electric plows" of Soviet propaganda do not exist. The insomniac Karlinsky wonders why death has not yet been abolished. And to match his vision of "The Future," one would have to go back to the indignatio saeva of Swift himself...
...consumer in 1960, the outpouring of new products and processes is a rich harvest that would have seemed incredible only a few years ago. Among the newest...
...pickle picker." Made by Chisholm-Ryder, it can harvest and sort nearly an acre of cucumbers in an hour...