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...Association. Expected income: $4.7 billion. It also will continue emptying out the federal stockpiles. In fiscal 1967, in addition to selling off copper and aluminum, the Government plans to dump onto the private market such fascinating commodities as 3,866,178 Ibs. of duck feathers, 129 million Ibs. of castor oil, 12 million carats of industrial diamonds, and 39,851 Ibs. of opium (used, respectively, for sleeping bags, paints, cutting tools and medical morphine). Expected income: $2 billion...
...junior to join the Navy's preflight program. In 1943 he took the Navy's option to join the Marine Corps, and won his gold wings and gold second lieutenant's bars. Then, resplendent in his dress blue uniform, he came back home to New Concord to marry Annie Castor, daughter of the town dentist, and his sweetheart ever since he could remember...
Buried away in this welter of polemics, a beautiful and well-modulated voice cries out for your attention. Stephen Sandy has written two new poems. The first, The Castor Bean Garden, is easily the most worthwhile item in this Mosaic, and also the most competent, well-pruned poem I have read in a Harvard publication. Sandy's intricate patterns of internal rhyme and his lush, but controlled alliteration give his poem just the the right form to complement his subject matter, which is the opposition of careful symmetry and undisciplined luxuriance. His second piece, Shoppers' World, struck me as slightly...
...Feathers, opium, castor oil, talc, sapphire, iodine, raw silk, and whale...
Goosefeathers. Secreted in 213 dumos and warehouses around the country, the war-emergency stockpiles include materials ranging from castor oil (for industrial machinery) to goosefeathers (for Army sleeping bags). Conceived by Franklin Roosevelt's Administration in 1939 as a means of preparing the U.S. for World War II, the stockpiling program was expanded slightly by Congress in the 19405, and greatly during the Korean war. In latter years, apart from a modest military utility, the program became a device to prop certain domestic industries, bolster commodity prices and even to work off the farm glut. Major holdings...