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...noted that in India alone the reduction in fertilizer production will reduce their crop by enough food to feed 10 million people...
...reliable veteran center, Ralph Backstrom, to the Los Angeles Kings, who were struggling with the Seals to stay out of last place. Backstrom's arrival kept the Kings out of the cellar. Pollock is such a shrewd trader that the Canadiens consistently come up with a spectacular crop of rookie stars; as a result, Montreal has won the Stanley Cup six out of the past nine years. "Expansion," says Pollock, "has been a great thing." What is great for Pollock, however, is not necessarily great for hockey...
...Johns Hopkins is to have a chance in today's meet, it will need a strong performance from its freshmen. "We have about the third or fourth best crop of freshmen in the East," Comford said, "and we count on them...
Despite the letterman losses, McCurdy will have an excellent crop of field men. First in mind is triple-threat jumper Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, a junior from the Bahamas who can triple, long, and high jump. Vanderpool-Wallace leaped to a Harvard record of 49 ft. 2 1/2 in. in the triple jump at an Oxford-Cambridge meet last year...
...shortages become more severe, talk of export restrictions has begun to crop up. Georgia Democratic Senator Herman Talmadge is demanding controls on all commodity exports because of the cotton crisis. The U.S. learned to its sorrow earlier this year that controls on individual commodities lead to problems in other areas. When the Government slapped controls on exports of soybeans in June, foreign buyers simply put their money instead into related U.S. commodities, like peanuts and alfalfa, whose exports then had to be controlled too. A blanket program on all exports would be patently unacceptable to the Administration, which believes that...