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...whole 1942 wheat crop is as useless as any boondoggle. It is already costing the U.S. Government some $80,000,000 in benefit payments, may soon take $800,000,000 more for price-propping crop loans. But the country could have gotten along all right if not one bushel had been raised...
...Louis took over Combined Operations, he was sent to the U.S. to command the bombed aircraft carrier Illustrious, then under repair at Norfolk Navy Yard. On that visit, their U.S. friends saw a new Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten. Lord Louis no longer hid his light under a fashionable bushel. Once one of London's best-dressed women, Lady Louis was often in uniform. As Lady President of Britain's swank St. John's Ambulance Brigade, she toured the U.S. for the Red Cross. Between chores, the Mountbattens visited their daughters, 17-year-old Patricia...
...malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol yield per bushel of corn was about 2.8 gallons with the mold-bran compared to 2.5 gallons with malt." Mold-fermentation of 100,000,000 bushels of corn or wheat would give about 25,000,000 more gallons of alcohol...
Meanwhile terminal elevators are bursting their seams, with little prospect of new construction. Said Agriculture's James E. Wells, who presided in Minneapolis last week: "Last year, we started with a 350,000,000-bushel wheat carryover. We filled up Baltimore, and we filled up Philadelphia, and we filled up Buffalo. Then down at Kansas City, they thought all we had to do to give them relief was to move about 15,000,000 bushels from Kansas City. Topeka had the same idea...
...Parity is the price at which a bushel of wheat or corn, or a given amount of other farm produce, buys as much (in factory goods, taxes, etc.) as it did in the farmer's prosperous 1909-14 period...