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...themselves out of a serious grain shortage at bargain prices. The U.S., in return, found a new market for its grain, which will help decrease its balance of payments deficit. Most wheat farmers should benefit in the long run from the higher prices. One byproduct of the wheat and corn sales to the Russians, however, is that they will feed inflation in the U.S., particularly in pressures on the price of bread, pork and beef...
...Corn Hints. In the current issue, for example, Princeton Physicist Melvin Gottlieb postulates that controlled fusion, using water as a source of raw material, may solve power shortages of the future. British Freelancer Jonathan Power concludes that urban development could be disastrous in Africa, where "rural life and the land offer something better than the god of G.N.P...
...handed $30 by Chip Monck and told to go to Haymarket's wholesale flower shop and come back with "six or eight dozen carnations or something, any kind of corn flower, that we can crush and make into throwable petals, and at least four dozen roses, I don't care where they've been, just any four dozen roses." I have half an hour...
...expected to fill quotas set in the current Five-Year Plan, especially for feed-grains used in meat production. Under last week's agreement, which was announced at the Western White House by National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Moscow can buy any combination of U.S. wheat, corn, sorghum, rye, oats and barley that it chooses, at the going market rate. The Soviets' biggest concession was to accept the same financing that the Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation gives any other customer: 6⅛% annually, with the entire loan repaid within three years after the last delivery...
...sister, hair in corn-rolls, and wearing traditional African clothes, kneels to place a blanket on the ground. Her husband tenderly places their baby on the blanket...