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...once in high prices over the counter, again in taxes to finance the farm-support program to keep the price up. From his taxes came the money for such subsidy payments as the $3,759,000 paid to Russell Giffen of Fresno, Calif, for his 1948 grain, cotton and flax; $426,000 to the Reeds of Fort Fairfield, Me., and $216,000 to Rudolph Blier of Van Buren, Me. for his 1948 potatoes...
...tiny Bohemian village of Cihost, in the hills southeast of Prague, flax farmers and woodcutters last week were whispering excitedly. They were discussing the new "miracles" and the trouble which had followed them...
...most important product in rural America is children-not wheat or corn or flax ... The object of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, among other things, is to make the rural pastor conscious of the importance of his profession and of its dignity ... The Church is the biggest single factor in building up rural communities...
...postwar years rolled up huge profits buying wheat and other foodstuffs cheap from Argentine farmers and selling abroad for all the traffic would bear. Lately Miranda's all-the-traffic-will-bear policy has backfired. Because he jacked the price of linseed oil skyhigh, U.S. farmers took up flax-growing. Result: the U.S. this year produced its first exportable surplus of linseed oil in history. Argentina has lost its U.S. and British markets, and IAPI is stuck with 325,000 tons of the stuff...
...young flax and green wheat grow on the plain of Waterloo. In the midst of the battle monuments, which include a cast-iron British lion glowering toward the French frontier, a humble seller of ice-cream cones, Jean Boewet, last week spoke his mind...