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...matter of food supplies, there is no disguising Moscow's need for U.S. aid. With this year's grain crop projected at 170 million metric tons-a full 20 million below Russia's needs-Moscow desperately wants to return to the U.S. market, where it has already purchased 10 million tons this year. But until mid-October, at least, all U.S. sales and shipments of grain to the Soviets have been frozen by Ford in response to arguments that massive grain purchases drive up U.S. food prices (TIME, Sept...
...controversy is unusually intense because of present concerns over racial issues, Fogel's detractors and defenders both say that the final evaluation of the book's worth rests on more esoteric issues, like the accuracy of Fogel's comparison of pre-Civil War Northern agriculture, which was multi-crop, and Southern agriculture, which grew only cotton...
...this year. That likelihood increased last week when the Department of Agriculture forecast record U.S. harvests of 240 million metric tons for all grains -wheat, corn, oats, barley and rye. That would be 2% less than was forecast in August, but 42 million tons above last year's crop. So, the U.S. should be able to feed itself and export heavily, too -though at how great a cost in added inflation is still unclear...
Then, last year, Alice Vonk, now 67, a widowed mother of eight from Sully, Iowa, sent in some seeds to Burpee's farm in California. The first crop of marigolds was not quite white, but its seeds were planted this year, yielding at last the winner. Mrs. Vonk, who picked up her check last week at Burpee's home in Doylestown, Pa., did it all without any highfalutin horticultural techniques. Every summer for the past 20 years, she simply picked out the flowers that came closest to the ideal and saved their seeds for replanting...
...concrete terms, the Kissinger-drafted speech will urge greater aid for the poorest nations from the industrial states and the newly rich oil producers. It will renew his call for a world food reserve of 60 million tons to provide a cushion against crop failures. To solve balance of payments problems, it will suggest giving International Monetary Fund loans to countries that suffer trade shortfalls. In the face of opposition from key Cabinet members like Treasury Secretary William Simon, Moynihan is expected to announce that the U.S., for the first time, may be willing to tamper with traditional free-market...