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...where there are no facilities to bring in the coal to fuel them, to a sugar refinery that closed within two weeks of its opening because no. sugar beets were grown in the area. Even more bitterly, they accused him of using development funds as a bottomless pork barrel with which to woo the peasant vote-a charge at least partly borne out last year when Menderes swept along Turkey's Black Sea coast in a pre-election tour passing out promises of sugar mills, cement factories and port improvements with all the abandon of a new father distributing...
THIS is the beginning of a revolution in swine raising," said Kansas City, Mo. Packer Arthur B. Maurer last week. The revolution: a new way of raising hogs called contract farming. Contract farming, though new to the pork industry, is not new to U.S. agriculture; it was started in the canning industry years ago. But its rapid spread in recent years to other sections of the farm economy has caused some enthusiasts to feel that it may go a long way toward solving the farm problem, since its aim is to increase the income of farmers by cutting their costs...
Next week the budget's wraps come off and Congress gets to work. Facing the men of Capitol Hill are three conflicting impulses: the desire for pork-barrel spending in an election year, the desire to economize, the desire to keep up with Russia without going into debt or raising taxes. Already Americans for Democratic Action demand a $78 billion to $80 billion budget; contrariwise, penny-saving House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon has harrumphed that "a great many people are going to use national defense as a reason to bolster their requests for bigger appropriations." What will finally...
Where had the pork gone? The answer was that the government was exporting the pork to Russia to pay for industrial imports-a fact the government keeps quiet for fear of angering its hungry people. But in Shanghai, when a batch of frozen pork is rejected by the Russians for inferior quality, the Chinese are allowed to buy what the Russians will not take. And once in a while, a Communist newspaper makes a slip. Example: one Cantonese newspaper impressed on its readers that 22,000 Ibs. of frozen pork can be exchanged abroad for one tractor...
...Communists are obviously intent on maintaining pork production. Country newspapers recently praised extravagantly a farm woman whose cooperatively owned sow died while still suckling half a dozen little pigs; the woman saved the pigs by feeding them at her own breast. Some 3,000,000 Chinese students have been taken from their studies and sent into the fields. Last week the New China News Agency complained that some had arrived with the idea of becoming "a new kind of temporary peasant," but had lost enthusiasm when they learned they had been assigned to farm work for life...