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...paid them just $1.35 a bushel for their wheat and sold it abroad for as much as $5.75 (TIME, Sept. 29), keeping the difference to pay for the "fiveyear plan." Last month, when they threshed their wheat, they held back as much as they could. Last week, with the crop trickling slowly to the docks, the dollar-minded Argentine government weakened, agreed to pay farmers 24? more a bushel, plus a further 24? a bushel if they would deliver the grain before July...
Wealthy Bostonians have invariably been kind to painters who were kind to them. In colonial days, each year brought a new crop of self-made gentry who wanted pictures of themselves in lace and ruffles to send home to England or to hang in their own parlors as proof of success. They cared more for the lace than for the likeness. Portraiture, wrote James Thomas Flexner in a history of colonial painting (First Flowers of Our Wilderness, Houghton Mifflin; $10) out last week, became "a profession before any other American...
Legs Visible. On the broad boulevards of the Argentine capital last week, many a piropo was whispered, for spring, although a bit late, had finally come. The dry weather had ill portents for the grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city's parks, well shaded with ombú, palm, ceiba, and shiny-leafed magnolias, were crowded with lovers, fashionable ladies with fashionable dogs, plain people out for a stroll. Many a piropeador audibly admired the spring styles which spurned the New Look and kept legs before the male eye. Buenos...
Onetime agriculture missionary to Russia (in 1929) and Great Britain (in 1941) by Government invitation, white-haired, dapper Tom Campbell owns huge wheat acreage in Montana. On a visit to the White House, Campbell told President Truman that he was withholding all of his current crop-some 610,000 bushels-because he wanted to get as much as he could for it. One way to get farmers to sell, he said, was for the Government to peg the price of wheat at about $3.50 a bushel, some 50? above the current price. The President said he didn't blame...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), white-thatched Mr. Wilson cracked: "Perhaps I should not say that I am glad to be the only one left, but I will say that I am certainly happy to be here." There was a marked difference between most of Forbes's new "leaders" and "the crop of 1917. Then they were empire-builders such as Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller. The leaders of 1947 are largely managers...