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...Triple Subsidy for cotton, recently passed, calls for annual expenditures in excess of six hundred million dollars to accomplish these general purposes: support the price of raw cotton to bolster the income of cotton farmers; subsidize the export of U.S. cotton by paying a fixed sum per pound to American exporters so they can match the much-lower world price; subsidize U.S. textile mills by paying them enough so they can afford to buy the price-supported, export-subsidized domestic stuff...
...nonfood products. In Italy the government's austerity program aims at raising taxes on cars and gasoline, restricting installment purchases. Some manufacturers protest that such measures may brake Europe's boom too hard, but political leaders insist that drastic action is needed to stop the rise in export prices and narrow the trade deficits that have been growing dangerously in Italy and Britain...
...passed by the Senate, the measure guaranteed wheat farmers who agree to limit their acreage a support price of $2 per bu. for wheat sold for domestic human consumption, and $1.55 per bu. for export wheat. Textile mills would receive a subsidy of about 60 to allow them to buy U.S. grown cotton at the world price of 240 per lb. Cotton growers, while receiving a 300-per-lb. support price, would be paid a bonus for reducing plantings...
...Baker received money from meat import-export transactions, and "wasn't this part of a device whereby the Murchison interests could reimburse you for past and future legislative favors granted...
...lower classes groveling in it. In support of this view, the following data can be added to the summary of the Square study: "Playboy" magazine, lately the recognized journal of high-brow and middle-brow culture, is how under prosecution in New York for a photo feature on the export version of a recent Jayne Mansfield movie. Freely for sale, cheap in the Square is Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World, with an obscenity density of 27.60 and the same pictures "Playboy" dared to run. "Playboy," in attempting to broaden the sexual experience of its audience, reached too far down...