Word: freemans
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...greatest potential market is Russia. Khrushchev has told U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Roving Diplomat Averell Harriman and just about every other visiting businessman and journalist in Moscow that he is eager to buy not fertilizer but entire fertilizer plants from the U.S. Whether or not to sell him plants is a high-policy decision now facing President Johnson and Congress. One sticker is the Export Control Act, which bars the shipment of anything that would significantly help the Communist bloc's economy. Farmer Khrushchev would be the first to hope that U.S. fertilizer plants would do just that...
...Time. It was the Farm Bureau, biggest of the U.S. farm organizations with 1,628,295 families, that was chiefly responsible for defeating the Administration's program of stringent controls last May with the slogan, "Freedom v. Freeman." Buoyed by its victory in the referendum and bulging with 20,790 new member families since then, the bureau still is vigorously pressing its demands for a complete Government retreat from the farm field...
...begun working up a wheat bill before the President's death to avert a politically damaging decline in farm income. Last week President Johnson was on the phone repeatedly with congressional farm leaders, pleading for passage of a new bill before February. In St. Paul, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told the National Farmers Union that "a wheat program will be necessary." And in Chicago, where 5,000 farmer-delegates of the conservative American Farm Bureau Federation were holding their 45th annual convention, the Administration made a major effort at conciliating the farmer...
...return of the injured and a week of hard practice primed the Crimson for Dartmouth. The Indians grabbed the lead, but beautiful play by wing forward Lee Freeman and wing Gage McAfee pushed Harvard ahead to an 11-8 victory...
...rates have been rising since the Communists began preempting cargo space for Western wheat. For another, the 400-odd U.S. merchant vessels capable of carrying grain may be nearly all booked up anyway when the Russia-bound wheat is ready to move. In any case, said Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman after a session with the Russians, the situation "looks very promising...