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...advancing. Turkish agricultural land is expanding; this year there is an alltime high of 10.5 million hectares under cultivation. The Turk is a hard worker and he's used to sacrifice. Last month, the central Anatolian plain was seething with harvest activity. Though 1,283 ECA combines have been imported since 1948, most of the threshing is done by ancient methods. Oxen pull sleds, equipped with sharp flint points, around & around in the harvested wheat stocks, cutting them apart. Then the peasant and his family toss the grain into the air, allowing the wind, as it has for centuries...
...Hull's Reciprocal Trade Agreements lowered those walls somewhat, and since then substantial cuts have been made. The latest effort along this line was U.S. sponsorship of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a web of multilateral agreements set up in 1948 by which the signatories, including all ECA nations, guaranteed to lower restrictions as far as they could...
...dairy interests' victory has also left its mark on the ECA. A good example is Belgium, where cheese exports to America were a main factor in the fight for self-sufficiency. The Belgian ECA program received a serious setback when the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under the Anderson-Thye amendment, had to cut cheese imports forty percent last August...
This evidently does not interest the dairy men, nor does the ECA program nor even their own country's prestige and honesty; they, as well as the congressmen who cooperated with them, seem to be more interested in protecting their own profits. Congress would do well to make a little less noise about municipal and state-wide protection rackets and do something about its own version...
...article appearing in the Sept. 3 issue of TIME under the heading: "Corner in Rye?" In this article there is the following statement: ". . . Cullum named some of the combine's members: The Washington lobbyist for one of Chicago's grain speculators, a U.S. Senator, an ECA official and his wife, two staffers of the Senate Agriculture Committee...