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...Francisco meters were jammed by rings in the same period, and in New York, the traffic department is collecting about 20,000 rings a month. Elmer Ploof, in charge of parking-meter collections for Detroit, has stored in the city treasurer's safe two overflowing bushel baskets of rings taken from meters-out of sight perhaps, but not out of mind...
...grain the U.S. has been donating annually to such countries as India, Pakistan 'and Brazil. But Europe and Japan will have to buy their share for cash, thus increasing the world commercial market for wheat. Delegates also agreed on a new minimum world price of $1.73 a bushel for hard red winter wheat sold at Gulf Coast ports-23? a bushel above the existing floor, but only about 2? above today's actual market price. In a move that will help U.S. farmers, the Common Market cut its tariffs by an average 25% on such produce as canned...
...remember one problem," winced the Greatest. "There are twelve bushels of apples. They cost $10 each. You buy them, but before you do, you take a third of the apples out of each bushel. How much do you pay for the apples?" That one floored Heavyweight Cassius Clay, 23, and after he'd taken the count on two Army aptitude tests, the U.S. declared that the champion just wasn't bright enough to fight. Now Colonel Everette Stephenson, director of Selective Service in Kentucky, will "more than likely" summon Clay for another round of brain crushers. Meantime...
...Passed, by a House vote of 219 to 150, a new four-year agriculture bill that would increase wheat prices an average of 150 a bushel, lower supports for next year's cotton crop from 300 to 210 a pound, with compensatory federal payments to growers who agree to limit production. Overall, the bill aims at reducing the Government's $4 billion annual price tag for farm surpluses by about $100 million. The bill was the product of a House-Senate conference committee, now goes to the Senate...
...down-to-earth reminder that with an election coming up, the Administration could hardly afford to let wheat prices fall to $1 a bushel. The farmers took Shuman at his word and resoundingly defeated the plan. Ten months later, Congress passed a voluntary program with the $2 support price...