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...thousand miles south of Nairobi, the fear of spreading Mau Mauism haunts the fertile British Protectorate of Nyasaland. The colony's 4,400 Britons raise bumper crops of tea, tobacco and citrus fruits along the Shire River valley, which drains the 360-mile-long Lake Nyasa (see map). They are outnumbered more than 500-to-one by 2,500,000 Africans, whom they call "niggers" and "coons." Last week...
...gospeling is up-and-doing Dr. Harry P. Stagg, 55, a minister who came to New Mexico from Louisiana in 1930, and has been executive secretary of the New Mexico Baptists for the past 15 years. Rotarian Stagg has pushed mission work and evangelistic camp meetings, to harvest a bumper crop of conversions from ranchers and cowboys, Indians and Spanish-Americans: about 20 New Mexican towns now have "Spanish Baptist" churches...
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...choice. The 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, still in effect, says that the wheat-marketing restriction machinery must be thrown into gear when the wheat supply reaches the "crisis point." That point is keyed to the prospects for domestic consumption and export of wheat. When this year's bumper crop is in, the total supply is expected to be 17 billion bushels,† the greatest on record, 28% above the crisis point...
...bumper wheat crop, with the carryover, would give the U.S. the greatest supply of wheat in its history, and almost certainly force the Agriculture Department to cut back wheat planting next year-an unpopular move with farmers. But it seems unlikely that 1954 production could be shaved by more than 15%. The House Agriculture Committee last week approved a bill barring the Agriculture Department from cutting minimum acreage below 66 million acres (v. 55 million under present law), although acreage allotments have been under 66 million in five of "the six years in which they have been imposed since...