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...salaries of 2,500,000 U.S. Government employees, the care of Eskimos, and the spaghetti supply of Naples. The American taxpayer is the latest product of aeons of human progress. From his forefathers, despots were able to extract, under club or sword or torture, a livre here and a bushel of turnips there. But every dime the American taxpayer gives up has been voted out of him by his duly elected representatives...
...insistence on low-numbered license plates. Général de Théátre the cynics called him, but if De Lattre's triumphs were invariably spectacular, it was simply because he saw no reason why heroism and high purpose should be hidden under a hypocritical bushel of false modesty...
...evidence of a corner was strong. From July 2 to July 20, rye for delivery that month had jumped 37? a bushel to $2.15½; in the last three days of trading alone, it shot up 21? a bushel. But in the same period, rye for September delivery actually dropped 8? a bushel, to $1.652. Obviously, plenty of speculators had been caught short in July rye and their rush to "cover" had pushed up the price. Another factor pointed to a corner: at the end of the trading period, there were still 952 "open contracts" in July rye (i.e., agreements...
...winter wheat prospects looked so bad. In some Kansas counties last week, 80% of the 1951 crops had been abandoned because of drought, sub-zero winter temperatures and insects. Across the rest of the U.S. wheat belt, prospects were almost as poor: one expert predicted a 624,970,000-bushel crop, 21% less than the ten-year average, and 18% less than last year. Because of the estimated big carryover of 425 million bushels as of July 1, there will be plenty of wheat this year for bread, breakfast cereals, etc. But Department of Agriculture forecasters warned that, if supplies...
...first tapped the cyst, drawing a fluid from it slowly, 120 drops a minute, so that no sudden loss of pressure would affect the heart. In four days he drew off some 200 Ibs. of fluid. Then the cyst itself was removed. It was about the size of a bushel basket, weighed...