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...results of this almost incredible situation have not been catastrophic for two reasons: 1) Chiang Kai-shek's present government is definitely better in performance and public relations than any Chinese Nationalist government since the mid-1950s; 2) a bumper rice crop this year has made rural Formosans feel pretty good and allayed discontent that might otherwise have been stimulated by American statements...
Young, Tall & Lean. The union men, most of them the young, tall, lean and laconic type which abounds in the east Tennessee hill country, didn't say much. They just piled into their cars and drove seven miles east to a valley called Lowland. They parked bumper-to-bumper close to a limp, dirty tent which was headquarters for the picket line. From there they could see the American Enka Corp.'s Lowland plant and almost hear the whir of machines turning out rayon yarn for automobile tires. For a while, at the end of March, Local...
...Quarterly cited the case of a Jefferson County (Ind.) farmer who normally uses all of his corn for feed. He had such a bumper crop in 1948 that he cribbed his 904-bushel surplus, put it under Government seal in 1949 and got a $1,319 loan at the $1.47-a-bushel support price less charges. Then a neighbor told him he was a fool: he could put his entire crop under loan at the support price, then buy all the corn he needed for feed at 65½ a bushel in the cash market. In short, by selling...
...wheat.* Although acreage is being cut 14%, the cuts are being made in the poorest land. By planting wheat on their best land and using more fertilizer, farmers will harvest an estimated crop of 1,185,000,000 bushels, some 40 million more than last year's bumper harvest. Much the same thing can happen in the corn fields. Corn farmers may plant only 82.7 million acres, their smallest sowing in 50 years. But sunny skies and hybrid seed can easily produce another bumper crop this year...
Last week the corporation made its choice: vigorous, bumper-jawed 43-year-old Yale history Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold. A Yaleman himself (class of '29), Griswold had started out with literary ambitions.* But after a summer stint in a Wall Street brokerage office, he went back to Yale to teach. Since then he has been a witty, popular instructor in the departments of English and history. In 1947 he became one of Yale's youngest full professors, meanwhile turned out a brace of scholarly, readable books (The Far Eastern Policy of the United States, Farming and Democracy...