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...letters a day from young information seekers. The pupils ask for samples of all Massachusetts minerals, lists of state judges and the names of all state wild flowers. The Boston Chamber of Commerce has received postcards with only the word "Information" on them. The young writers want samples of soil and biographies of the Founding Fathers. The Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry gets 5,000 letters a month. The Douglas Aircraft Co. in Los Angeles has received as many as 686 in a week...
...upturn? A "decisive" factor, explained Agriculture's Economist Frederick V. Waugh, was "government programs," e.g., the Administration-sponsored soil bank, which last September began to pay farmers to withdraw 12 million acres from production and put them to soil-conserving measures. The figures bore him out: of the 1956 rise-$400 million over last year's $11.3 billion-some $250 million is from soil-bank payments. Next year, when up to 45 million acres are to be set aside, the payments will be that much higher, and so should be the cut in the surplus. The hope...
...escape across the border. Clutching their cheap cloth satchels, they shuffled gratefully to shelter. One boy, dressed in a knitted hat and an oversize leather coat, carried all his belongings in a paper bundle strapped to his back with brown twine. An old woman proudly displayed the packet of soil that she had dug from her garden...
FARM-INCOME RISE is expected for 1957. Agriculture Department says that heavy exports, soil-bank payments, rising population, will push up farmers' income despite rising costs of farm labor, equipment. Higher prices are predicted for pork, fruit, vegetable oils, feed grains. But prices will edge down for eggs, vegetables...
...Saudi Arabia to Syria in operation, is going slow so as not to provoke Syria into blowing up that line as it did the line from Iraq. The U.S. was also, obviously, not willing to rush to the aid of Britain and France while their troops remained on Egyptian soil...