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...weaknesses of the U.S., a TIME correspondent drove into California's San Joaquin Valley to bring up to date a story of fault and weakness that fascinated the pundits 25 years ago. His question: Whatever happened to the Okies-the thousands of desperate farm families that fled drought and Depression and swarmed into California in the 1930s? The answer turned out to be a story of adversity that turned to strength for both a migrant people and a region of fabulous fertility. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Harvesters...
BEEF PRICES will go up next year because supplies will head down. In Texas, beef on the hoof is selling for 14¾? a Ib. v. 9⅓½?a year ago; cattle raisers are holding cows off market to replenish their drought-thinned herds, but it will take them several years to do so. Result: beef output will slip from 83 Ibs. per capita this year to 81 Ibs. in 1958, only...
Drainage & Drought. A month ago, in a desperate gamble on international credit, India released the sterling reserves held in London to back its currency, made them -available to pay for imports essential to the plan. Today those reserves are down to $666 million, and are draining away at the rate of $16 million a week...
...cruel coincidence, nature has dealt India a brutal blow. Across the north-central farm belt in recent weeks some 4,000,000 tons of grain have been lost in the worst drought to hit India since 1951. Just to keep the 25 million people in the drought area alive, India will have to import an additional 2,000,000 tons of grain, at an estimated cost of another $100 million in foreign exchange...
...wake of the country's worst combination of floods, drought and famine in nearly a decade, Communist administrators had taken to including sweet potatoes in weighing out the daily pound of rice. Farmers, with a bitterness that only a Chinese can fully appreciate, had coined a saying: "Sweet potatoes and noodles are the rice of socialism...