Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Route to the Top. Corn Products Co. has set up a Brussels headquarters to coordinate operations in 14 European countries instead of having all report to New York. Sperry Rand's computer and office-equipment sales forces in 18 nations are now run out of Lausanne; Merck Sharp & Dohme recently established an office in Brussels to supervise six European subsidiaries. Says Professor Raymond Vernon, international trade specialist at Harvard Business School: "For the first time in history, we're seeing global strategy in terms of corporate entities. What you are seeing is a fundamental reorganization...
...risen a significant 13% in the past decade: from 20% in 1955 to more than a third of the total last year. During the same span, trade with Russia fell from 69% to 41%, nearly as much as with Rumania's Red neighbors. "Why should we send corn to Poland?" asks Premier Maurer. "So Poland can fatten its pigs and buy machinery from the West? We can sell our corn direct and buy the machinery we need ourselves...
...middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children. By that standard, several million Americans would have to give up their kids. I don't drive a hay wagon, I don't go to church on Sunday, I don't grow corn in my backyard, and I've never voted for McKinley. This, in the eyes of Iowa, makes me a bohemian...
...produce unwanted surpluses and not to supplant the efforts of other countries to develop their own agricultural economies." In addition, to meet "unprecedented demands arising out of drought and the war in Asia," Johnson announced a 10% increase in rice acreage in 1966, and said that corn-belt farmers would be encouraged to switch some feed-grain acreage to soybeans, a high-protein oilseed of which the U.S. has virtually no reserve stocks...
...Rural Construction Cadres, which are simply an expanded form of the PATs. Some cadres will conduct a census of the village, issue identification cards and weed out Viet Cong suspects. Meanwhile, other cadres will start schools, provide medical services, help farmers get crops of rice and corn planted, organize local government and help train leaders. The final, far-off stage calls for free elections and handing the village governments over to local people...