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Past Failure. In his 25 years of brutal collectivization and regimentation of the peasantry, Stalin failed to wrest enough food out of the Russian soil to feed his people; the output of some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
...developed during the shooting of The Caine Mutiny. Commander James C. Shaw, a World War II naval hero (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima) who put in a 10½-month tour as technical adviser on the movie, objected to it immediately on the theory that an Annapolis man would never butter a whole piece of toast but would first break it into fragments. "I went to school at Andover," huffed Bogart indignantly. "Are you trying to tell me that Annapolis turns out better gentlemen than Phillips Academy?" Shooting stopped until Producer Kramer solved the dilemma by trimming the crusts...
...FOREIGN BUTTER PRODUCERS are up in arms against Agriculture Secretary Benson's plan to sell surplus U.S butter overseas at low prices (42? to 47? a lb., v. about 58? in the U.S.). Both New Zealand and Australia, which export about 500 million Ibs. of butter annually, have protested to the State Department that Benson's cut-rate prices constitute dumping. But Benson still plans to go ahead; in fact, he is adding surplus corn, barley, oats and rye to his cut-rate foreign offerings...
Deal with Britain. The Commodity Credit Corp., said Benson, is negotiating with Britain to sell butter at the world market price of 47? a Ib. (v. 63? to 75? in the U.S.). If the deal goes through, it may lower the surplus by 80 million Ibs. But outside of Iron Curtain nations, which have a serious butter shortage, there are few other countries to which the U.S. can sell butter without hurting local suppliers and other butter-exporting nations...
Benson feels that any butter plan might prove so expensive-and so impractical-that he does not intend to try a new one without a congressional O.K. Said Benson: "We are concerned about the 360 million lbs. which we now own. We are even more concerned about the next 360 million lbs. which we might acquire...