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The farm situation, Benson bluntly admitted, certainly is not all Cadillacs and caviar. Since February 1951, the prices farmers get have dropped 64 points (from 313 to 249) on the Agriculture Department's index. Prices that farmers pay for goods they buy (including livestock feed) did not begin dropping...
Caught in the price-cost squeeze, some Farm Bureau members turned against Kline. To appease the dissidents in Chicago, Kline & Co. employed a semantic device. In the resolution renewing the organization's stand, they used "variable" instead of "flexible," which has become a bad word in some farm circles...
Next came the French. Joseph Laniel, the husky, stolid Norman industrialist who governs precariously as France's 19th postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for...
Laniel, whose government must resign in January when France inaugurates a new President, was trying to get some sort of moral support (not ratification) for EDC out of the Assembly, to give his lameduck government a little more standing at Bermuda. The Premier watered his resolution down as far as...
Thus, the American market seems treacherously unstable to foreigners. What is in demand one day may not be the next. Therefore, many foreign producers are reluctant to expand their sales in the U.S., even when there is a strong demand for their products. One Dutch manufacturer of tea sieves, whose...