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Exhibits of Despotism. As for the vaunted Russian aid, Dulles pointed out that the Russian figures are misleading, since the Russians count trade in their totals, e.g., the money they pay Egypt for its cotton and Syria for its wheat. On that basis, U.S. aid to pact member countries alone amounted to $2.2 billion last year, and to about $10 billion over a five-year period. This could be compared with the $300 million Russia claims to be giving Syria over the next five years. Furthermore, said Dulles, the Russians have concentrated their aid in areas that have special strategic...
...million from its quota in the International Monetary Fund, enabled it to defer payments on $186 million owed to the U.S. and the Export-Import Bank during the next three years, and to pay the U.S. in francs for $88 million worth of military supplies and surplus cotton...
When the time came for cotton planting last spring, Arizona Farmer Jack A. Harris saw a fine chance to teach the Government a lesson-and make himself a quick profit (TIME, July 22). A foe of all price supports, he put his 1,600-acre Pima County farm into the soil bank in return for a $209,701 Government check. Then he sidestepped the bank's purpose by sowing 4,500 acres of cotton in another part of the state. Even after paying an 18½? penalty a pound for growing cotton without an allotment (which amounted...
...rhymes roughly with trend-in-dress) had never administered anything but the family farm near the southwestern Turkish town of Aydin, where he was born in 1899-he does not remember the month or day. He was orphaned soon after birth, thereby fell heir to 30,000 acres of cotton and wheat land watered by the river known to the Turks as the Menderes and to the ancient Greeks as the Meander. (It was affection for his birthplace that led the dynamic Adnan to choose so undescriptive a surname when in 1934 the late great Kemal Ataturk, father of modern...
...when good weather gave it the biggest wheat crop in history -8,200,000 tons v. 3,800,000 in 1950-Turkey became for the first time a substantial exporter of wheat. The once arid Anatolian plateau was dotted with green fields and bustling communities, and the cotton-producing areas of southern Turkey experienced a new prosperity. Turkey's sugar production, which nearly trebled between 1950 and 1956, was barely able to keep pace with domestic demand. Reason: the Turkish peasant, with money in his pocket, had taken to using sugar for sweetening instead of honey or homemade fruit...