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Congratulations and a bushel of orchids. The text, the pictures and diagrams were marvelous. TIME can really be proud...
...years ago, a flint-chipper named Og, whose wife had unsympathetically thrown his collection of tiger teeth out of the cave, began giving one tiger tooth to anybody who bought two of his flints for ten clams. Soon Og found that he was selling flints by the bushel and running so low on tiger teeth that he had to get more-even if it meant hunting tigers. This was a nuisance and expensive; to cover the cost, he raised the price of his flints to 15 clams a pair. And to his astonishment, nobody seemed to care; they went right...
When the project is completed, oil and coal from Oklahoma and bauxite from central Arkansas will move to market bv water. Shippers will save as much as $2.30 a ton on rock phosphate, 13? a bushel on wheat, up to $10 a ton on steel compared to present rail rates. In all, the Corps of Engineers estimates that the rebuilt Arkansas River will carry 13 million tons of cargo at an annual savings of $40 million under train costs...
...House Agriculture Subhome as "Mr. Wheat.'' He strongly supports Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's program to impose strict production controls on wheat and pay for them with high subsidies. While campaigning, he makes a soft-spoken case for his views: "I've seen 21?-a-bushel wheat in the 19305 and have felt the dry dust of my land run through my fingers. I'm against that. I believe in $2-a-bushel wheat...
Barnum-Sized Bushel. As the first building completed in the 14-acre, $142 million Lincoln Center complex, Philharmonic Hall attracted to its stage last week a Barnum-sized bushel of musical talent. On opening night, Conductor Bernstein used not only the Philharmonic but also three choruses (the Juilliard, Schola Cantorum, and Columbus Boychoir) and twelve top-priced soloists, including Tenors Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers, Soprano Eileen Farrell and Mezzo-Soprano Shirley Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet...