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...prospect of a 10% to 20% drop in grain production, Moscow has clamped a news blackout on the subject. And apart from a routine one-line announcement of a new trade agreement, there was not one word about the huge $500 million pur chase of Canadian wheat and flour that the Kremlin hopes will make up much of the deficit...
...reason to guess that a shortage lay ahead. Recently bread stores have rationed customers to two loaves per purchase, and Pravda last week launched a massive campaign against grain wastage and theft. The foreman of a mill in the Kaluga region south west of Moscow was ignominiously photographed with flour he had smuggled out in his pants. In the North Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties for serving over-ample portions of bread - "the holy...
...spending spree on wheat, which promised to give an exhilarating boost to the lagging Canadian economy, would have its impact elsewhere as well. Word came from Australia that it would sell Russia another $100 million worth. Moscow was dickering with West Germany for 250,000 tons of flour. Even U.S. wheat growers, stuck with a huge surplus, hoped to get in on the bonanza; the State Department in Washington apparently had no objections...
...family stake was begun by their father, Muljibhai Madhvani, who arrived in Uganda in 1905 to trade in salt, flour and seashells. Eventually he traded up to bicycles and farm tools, plowed the profits into new ventures, and bought the sugar plantation for almost nothing from white landowners afraid of the tsetse fly. Madhvani broke in his sons as plantation laborers and ruled with an iron hand. Jayant recalls that "all our meetings were held over the dinner table, and we never left his presence until 11:30 in the evening." Though he has been dead since 1958, Muljibhai...
...than production capacity (201,000 bbl.). Buying crude to keep its refineries cracking costs Sinclair $3 a bbl. v. $2 for oil from its own wells. Describing his company's plight, Steiniger uses a kitchen analogy: "It's like a baker with big ovens and not enough flour for his dough...