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...conclave, those loyal East German boys, Premier Grotewohl and First Party Secretary Ulbricht, were rewarded with a treaty giving them the right to know how many Soviet divisions were stationed on their soil. The lesser fry-Bulgaria's Zhivkov, Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and even little Kadar from Hungary-got encouraging pats on the back. There were vast banquets at the Kremlin, a huge amount of congratulatory speechmaking and communiques galore...
...small fry in California implored us to send him the governor to help give a "crucial" class report on New Jersey; another sought a jar of soil from the banks of the Delaware where Washington crossed. Our alltime favorite came from a little wiseacre in The Bronx...
...last week with an urgency that broke through the cold officialese: "In many places in the Great Plains, moisture conditions are the worst in recorded history." The result: after only one month of the normal (November-May) annual "blow" season, the acreage of crop and range land damaged by soil-eroding winds in the ten-state area was already three times larger (almost 2,000,000 acres, one-third of them in Kansas) than in the same period last year. Moreover, with the peak of the high-wind season yet to come, some 29 million additional acres-up almost...
WHEAT PRICES will rise this year, after recent downtrend. Soil bank is expected to take 15 million acres out of use, help trim 150 million bu. to 200 million bu. off 1956 crop of some 990 million bu., reduce surplus for first time since Korean war. Exports are also up 100% over last year because of loosened Government controls on shipments, U.S. aid to foreign buyers, wheat shortage in Europe...
...rise was due to higher food prices, which meant that the U.S. farmer, who often complains that he has been the forgotten man of the boom, was finally coming out of his slump. Thanks to increased consumption and an $8.5 billion Government investment in price-support and soil-bank aid, farm income showed a 4% rise, the first upswing in four years. Yet few consumers felt a real pinch. Workers' paychecks jumped 4% for the year, twice the increase in their living expenses. Everywhere, Americans had more money to spend ($325 billion) and spent more of it ($265 billion...