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...encouragement worked well. Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
After Senate confirmation, expected this week, the Board faces an unenviable task under the pressures of industry, consumers' groups and labor. Its first job is to decide, by Aug. 20, whether meat, milk, poultry, eggs, soybeans and cotton seed (and all food products made from these commodities) shall remain exempt from ceilings. As a court of last resort, it can overrule the OPA, the Department of Agriculture or any industry advisory committee on price regulation...
...mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government bought up local wheat at $5 a metric quintal, sold some...
There is no time to be lost: "Protestantism has been too long going to seed in its sectarianism. To allow it . . . even so long a period as a generation in which to become strong enough to hope that it can win America, is to give it a longer lease than either secularism or Roman Catholicism may allow...
This year some 30,000 bushels of the new Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S. celebrates its 60th birthday, it could boast that it had made Canadian wheat the world's toughest...