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Postponing Better Days. Actually, consumer-goods gains in 1954 were relatively small. According to the report of the Central Statistical Bureau, there was a 27% increase in the production of artificial silk underwear and a 6% increase in cotton fabrics, but in surveying the whole field, the bureau found that "much of this production was still of unsatisfactory quality." Makers of pianos, cameras, champagne, cigarettes, sausages, tea, matches and soap had exceeded their production quotas...
...COTTON EXPORTS in 1955 will jump 500,000 bales or 20% over last year, predicts Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Because of the new law that permits sales of U.S. farm goods abroad for foreign currency, a deal to sell 50,000 bales to Yugoslavia has already been wrapped up, and another for 175,000 bales to Japan will soon be signed...
Last week Ira Hayes, flabby and sad-eyed at 32, was back on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona, where he was born. He had not had a drink for two weeks, and was working as a cotton picker. His mother and father noticed that he seemed restless, but. Ira assured them that he was not going into Phoenix, not going to take a drink again. But when one of his brothers and a friend came by to invite him to a card and drinking party, Ira's resolution melted away. His mother waited...
...significant has been his adroit manipulation of party jobs. He has named new secretaries to the Communist Parties of Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia and Azerbaizhan. He appears in Leningrad and the next day the first and second secretaries of the local party organization are ousted. He criticizes cotton growing in Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan Premier Usman Yusupov is fired. In Moscow he launches an "anti-bureaucracy" drive, ostensibly to divert thousands of Moscow functionaries (i.e., minor party members) into more "useful employment in production." but no doubt to make way for Khrushchev...
JAPANESE CARTELS, banned under U.S. occupation, are coming back. Japan's Trade Minister has handed over control of all cotton yarn quality to ten big mills, which produce 80% of the country's total. Official reason: small cotton spinners, who get only 5% of raw cotton imports, have been adulterating their yarn with up to 60% rayon staple and other fibers. The small spinners will now probably be forced out of business, since they can no longer pad out their cotton supplies...