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...While other farm commodities did poorly, the soy did nip-ups for happy speculators: exports from Oct. 1 to March 31 rose nearly 1,000%, compared with the same period a year ago, while domestic producers crushed the beans at a record rate for oils and livestock meal. A trader who put up $180 at Christmas (at an 18? per bushel margin) to buy a futures contract to deliver 1,000 bushels four months later, pocketed a $997.50 profit at the beginning...
...attitude of a man who undoubtedly considered himself Stalin's legitimate heir. But crafty little Anastas Mikoyan, the Armenian trader, had been chosen to deliver a speech (obviously approved by others in the leadership) which snatched the rug out from under Nikita's big feet. Mikoyan attacked Stalin's Short Course of the History of the Party, for years the ideological basis of all such Communists as Khrushchev. He dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies...
Following in the Asian steps of those two jolly Communist gospelers, Khrushchev and Bulganin, a Russian evangelist of a different sort flew into New Delhi last week. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, an adroit Armenian trader, was greeted by Nehru in the midst of the Hindu spring festival of Holi, grinned in the standard circuit-riding Russian impersonation of a fine fellow as India's Premier smeared his forehead and Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov's face with vermilion in traditional observance of India's lighthearted Holiday. Then, with his 50 experts, Russia's No. 1 missionary...
McKeldin saw some merit in the local brewers' objection to the high Canadian tariffs on U.S. beer, but he refused to ban Carling's in retaliation. "I frown upon restrictive tariffs maintained by this country and others," said Free Trader McKeldin. "However, American leadership toward the elimination of such trade barriers, would not be helped by similar acts of shortsighted contrariness...
...18th century there had emerged in England a demi-reputable tradition of the "dismal trader," although for a long time the undertaker used to inspire communal shudders (in ancient Rome he was barred from politics). Now he had become "a strong, presentable man with a good suit of black clothes of his own"-and the scene was set for The Great American Funeral...