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...made his announcement, one big grain handler-Minneapolis' Cargill, Inc. (see U.S. BUSINESS)-put in its bid for a piece of the action by applying for an export license. The grain handlers are by no means the only ones who will benefit from the deal. It will fatten the chronically deficit-ridden U.S. balance of payments by a quarter of a billion dollars. Some 81,700 freight cars will be needed to move the wheat to ports. It will take 470 vessels with average capacities of 8,500 long tons apiece to ship it to Communist ports. By reducing...
...bottle of sour mash with Houseboy Paco, McCanless succumbs to a vision. That ventilated cow out in the barn, Old Blue-she is actually a vast, milling herd of white-faced steers. Like a latter-day Don Quixote, McCanless lays out his inspired plan to Paco: "We grass-fatten the herd on the trail, and then we sell it at top market. And when it's all over . . . we'll buy each of us a scarlet sweetheart and honky-tonk our tails...
...mica, all of its graphite and nickel, most of its diamonds and gold. Its furnaces and factories lead the country in pig iron, steel and ferrous alloys, rank second in aluminum, cement and lime. And on its rolling farm lands, 16.5 million cattle and 8,500,000 hogs fatten for market. All this, though it is just beginning to wake up to the 20th century...
Until the early '50s, corporations hardly ever gave money to colleges and universities; now many companies feel deeply obliged to help higher education as a source of competent employees and economic growth. The idea last year moved companies to fatten cam pus coffers by $200 million. At this rate, reports the pleased Council for Financial Aid to Education, the corporate ante in 1970 may pass $500 million...
Today's game should be a good chance for the Crimson batsman, almost hitless in recent games, to fatten up their slumping batting averages. Gavin Gilmor has fallen off from .432 to .328 in the last five games, and Tom Bilodeau has dropped 43 points to .328 over the same span. The only consistent hitter has been second baseman Terry Bartolet, currently leading the team with a .346 average...