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...strongest proposals: maintain the old privileges of officer and NCO ranks. Recently, Secretary Wilson, as if he had never heard of the report, yielded to pressure-from organized liquor retailers-and banned sales of package liquor in service messes and clubs. Since package-liquor sales are a financial prop of officer and NCO clubs in the Navy and Marines, the order was one more chisel blow at badly chipped rank privileges...
...months ago, U.S. wheat farmers voted to let the government set strict quotas on their 1954 crop (TIME, Aug. 24). Last week it was the cotton farmer's turn to vote on acceptance of quotas and 90% parity, or reject them and get only a 50% parity price prop. The result: a record 94% vote for quotas and price props, well over the two-thirds needed...
...temporary letdown when military orders were slowed in the period of disarmament. The current need for fighting planes will not slack off soon. In fact, it promises to increase. Experimentation is going on in subsonic, transonic, and supersonic flight--new developments are coming on in reciprocating (propeller driven), turbo-prop (combination jet and reciprocating), ram jet, and rocket engines...
Fear Abroad. One basic drawback to many of the farm plans is the assumption that foreign markets will absorb much of the U.S. farm surplus. Recent events suggest no such hope. At present, the Government has $4 billion tied up in price-prop loans and farm products, an alltime record. Among the stocks on hand: 426 million bu. of wheat v. 133 million last year, 457 million bu. of corn v. 280 million in 1952, 426 million Ibs. of dried milk v. 31 million. In an effort to get rid of the surpluses, the U.S. is willing to sell...
Throughout the reign of Juan Peron, the 6,000,000-member General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) has been his chief prop in power. Last week, apparently convinced that the C.G.T. has grown too big for efficient palace control, Peron openly backed a labor split in favor of a new rival union federation...