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...something everybody complained about but nobody did much to alter. The trouble began when the town's mechanical street sweeper broke down and there was no money in the budget for repairs. Refuse and dirt started to pile high, trucks carrying groaning loads of wheat to the elevators added to the mess, and so much sand from a water main project drifted around Main Street that Cheney began to resemble a grain belt Sahara...
...company studies its market. Relying on such factors as population trends and the likely availability of resources, they would try to estimate the economy's future needs for developing domestic supplies, expanding industries and raising capital. They would also attempt to project how many cars, houses and tons of wheat, steel, paper and other products the economy would demand. Then they would propose guidelines?tax and investment incentives as well as broader monetary and fiscal policies?for meeting those goals. Whenever the President or Congress floated major legislation, they would estimate its effects on prices and jobs...
...When the wheat quota for his Western Australia farm was cut in 1969, Leonard Casley protested that the government was trying to make him a pauper. Rather than let that happen, Casley decided to make himself a prince...
What to do with it all? AID officials will divert some of the goods to nations that the U.S. is still assisting, not to expand programs but to fill existing commitments. Foodstuffs, mainly rice, wheat and corn, will go primarily to Bangladesh, India and perhaps Egypt. But industrial goods pose a much tougher problem. They were intended for the sophisticated economic base that the U.S. wanted to build in South Viet Nam until the very end. (The Mayaguez, for instance, was unloading 3,000 tons of industrial goods-just what is still not clear-when it hastily had to leave...
...mercy toward consumers, but a blow to farmers. To shore up net farm income, which nearly doubled in 1973 but fell 17%, to $27 billion, last year, the measure would increase the support price of milk from 75% to 80% of so-called parity, raise "target" prices of wheat, grain and cotton (giving farmers cash subsidies if the price falls below the "target" level), and allow the Government to make larger loans to growers. It would also raise grocery bills. According to Agriculture Department economists, the addition to retail food prices this year would cost the consumer several hundred million...