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...G.N.P. that this year is expected to add up to $460 million, 8% over last year. Bananas still provide $38 million (or 40%) of the country's export earnings, but the highly successful Central American Common Market has stimulated a mushrooming cluster of small industries (paint, synthetic rubber, flour mills) on the Caribbean coast, where Mexican investors soon hope to build a $12.5 million steel mill using native ore and charcoal...
...committee printed 5,000,000 pamphlets attacking the proposed "bread tax," a phrase that became a household word overnight. The pamphlets, distributed free at supermarkets around the U.S., explained that if the wheat plan were passed, housewives would soon be paying more for bread as well as for flour, crackers, cookies and cereal. Before long, outraged mail against the wheat plan started deluging Capitol Hill...
...Luis de la Puente, 36, wanted in Lima for a 1962 murder. The terrorists preach the usual Communist line about capitalist exploitation and free land for all, attempt to counter the government's own considerable efforts at aid and social reform among the Indians by warning that free flour is distributed merely to fatten the Indians, the better to make soap of them later...
...Announced impending price controls on five overpriced staples (rice, salt, sugar, flour and condensed milk) and threatened profiteers with execution...
...October morning in 1958, carrying an ax, a little flour, a Bible, and a copy of Pilgrim's Progress, he set out barefoot for America. He struck due north through Tanganyika, Uganda, the Sudan. Some days he walked 50 miles, living mostly on bananas and peanuts. After four months his feet were a mass of blisters. "I am mad," he muttered. But his shirt said I WILL TRY. For consolation he read Pilgrim's Progress...