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...preserving game. The Indians called the berry sassamanesh; the Pilgrims rechristened it the cranberry. At first confined to New England, and mainly to Cape Cod, as a diet staple and profitable source of income, the cranberry gradually conquered the holiday tables of the nation. This month, when Americans buy more cranberries than at any other time of the year, no Thanksgiving dinner will be considered complete without them. The most important fact about the $54 million cran berry industry, however, is that its health no longer depends on just the traditional holiday trade; cranberry products have grown into year-round...
...grew no faster than the population. The industry suffered its greatest setback in 1959, when the Government seized a few cranberries sprayed with aminotriazole weed killer and announced that cranberries so contaminated might cause cancer. That Thanksgiving and Christmas, and in the months that followed, the public reluctance to buy cranberries almost ruined the industry...
...Cuban deal almost by an act of God. Le Nickel's main mines are in far-off New Caledonia, but a drought there cut the necessary supply of hydroelectric power and forced the company to look elsewhere for nickel oxide. Before turning to Castro, they tried to buy supplies from the 166,761-ton U.S. Government nickel stockpile, but Washington turned them down. Authorities of both Le Nickel and the French government buzz that the U.S. has another, more devious reason for boycotting Le Nickel: early this year the company closed a $20 million deal to sell 19 million...
Washington says that it has banned Le Nickel products from the U.S. because the company made a deal in July to buy 33 million Ibs. of nickel oxide from Castro's Cuba. The ban is based on the U.S. law prohibiting imports of products made from Cuban materials. Compounding the affront to the U.S. is the fact that Le Nickel agreed to purchase its nickel oxide from Cuba's Nicaro plant, a rich source that had been owned by the U.S. Government and operated by National Lead Co. until Castro expropriated...
Under IMF rules, Italy must buy up lire to support the price of its currency. To do his, it must dip into its reserves, using gold or another currency -- usually dollars -- to pay for the lire it buys...