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...record grain crop (50% over the 1934-38 average) is in. During 1949 and 1950, to the acute embarrassment of ECA Boss for Turkey Russell Dorr, who has always contended that Turkey should be a wheat-exporting nation, the country had to import the grain. This year, Dorr happily predicts, it will export 200,000 tons. In the south, cotton pickers are gathering another record crop (300% over...
...this means money to the Turks. The cotton crop will be worth $165 million this year (last pre-ECA crop: $25 million); wheat, $535 million. The ECA people would have you believe it's the Marshall Plan that has done it. The Turkish Democratic Party says it's their doing. Both acknowledge a valuable assist from Allah, who brought rains at just the right time during the growing season. Most of the $294 million of Marshall Plan aid has been passed on to the farmer: 6,468 tractors, 3,242 disk plows, 6,176 tractor-drawn plows...
...perhaps ECA's biggest impact on Turkey has been its road-building program. Turkey is a big country, cut apart by rugged mountain ranges and vast areas of distant plateau. Counting everything which wasn't simply a wagon track, ECA found barely 13,000 miles of roads, only 5,000 miles of them good enough for a truck. In the event of a Soviet attack on Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta) would be vital; 360 miles northeast of it is Erzurum, headquarters of the Third Army which controls the Soviet-Turkish frontier. Yet there...
...Recently ECA Boss Dorr was out in the wilds of eastern Anatolia. He asked an old farmer if he had heard of the Marshall Plan. Indeed the farmer had. "Before Marshall," the old man said, "there was no hard road near my house. I could only get 20 kilos on my donkey's back. If I put more on him, he sunk into the mud. Now I can put 30 kilos on the donkey, thanks to the Marshall Plan...
...doubt due to her having fought the early ones with so much carefree audacity. The Blessing is her seventh, and best, novel (runners-up: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate), and its overall gaiety more than makes up for the fact that its British nannies, French lovers, ECA Americans, etc. are not so much fresh creations as types lifted easily from well-known hooks...