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Long-barbed durum wheat-the kind that is good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist...
...deal assured the sale of the whole 1953 sugar crop plus part of the worrisome 1,400,000-ton carry-over from last year's bumper harvest...
...bumper crop of war babies helped the business to get back on key; so did the shorter work week, which provided more leisure time to enjoy music. Nowadays, some 2,000 U.S. cities have classical-music concerts each year, twice as many as before the war. Says President R. C. (for Reuben Charles) Rolfing of Chicago's Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest piano maker in the U.S.: "People are getting back more & more to wanting to do something for themselves-entertaining themselves." Many piano makers, such as Cincinnati's Baldwin Co., have helped the boom along with smart styling...
...most agricultural products, not only the U.S. but Europe had near-record bumper crops last year. On had both sides of the ocean, barring an extension of the Korean war, nations are faced with surpluses of everything from wheat to dairy products...
...President Magloire plans to rely mainly on the gros nègres, the natural leaders of the rural communities, such as Dorneirl Romeus, 23, one of the first sharecroppers to lease five acres at Bois Dehors, the valley's pilot irrigation project. Dorneirl netted $211 on his first bumper rice crop; before, he lived all year on a near-starvation diet and ended up with $10 cash. Now farmers who know him are eager for the completion of the Artibonite project, so that they can follow his example. Reclaiming, leveling and watering the entire 80,000 acres will require...