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Shamansky has a point. The Senate passed a farm bill that would hold the line on future subsidies for grain and dairy products but allow additional protections for sugar and peanuts. The House last week passed by a 192-to-160 vote a totally different bill that would increase dairy and grain subsidies but would eliminate protection for sugar and peanuts. The Senate bill would cost at least $7 billion over the next four years; the House bill would cost $13 billion. The only ones totally pleased with the bills were Southern tobacco planters. Their peculiar allotment system remained untouched...
...Administration was against the dairy and grain subsidy increases. But representatives from Midwestern farm states were defiant, partly because the White House had earlier agreed to maintain subsidies on sugar, peanuts and tobacco as a way of gaining Southern Democratic votes for its economic package. In fact, resentment over those deals led to a breakdown of the traditional backscratching among Southern and Midwestern Representatives. After winning their grain and dairy supports, most Midwesterners joined other Congressmen to defeat a package of sugar and peanut programs that had been passed by the Senate. Caught between principles and promises, the Administration stood...
...Frank Lloyd Wright. Adolf Loos' messianic rejection of ornament in the early 1900s, which became such a fetish with the International Stylists, came straight out of his infatuation with American machine culture. Le Corbusier derived a good deal of his architectural syntax from the "functional" shapes of American grain elevators, docks and airplanes. And when European modernists in the early '20s dreamed up their Wolkenkratzers (cloud scratchers), the nearest the German language could come to the alien Yankee concept of a skyscraper, critics accused the modernists of deserting their native traditions and caving in to transatlantic cultural imperialism...
...seeds of the first revolution-high-yield, fertilizer-hungry super-grains-were sown all over the world in the 1960s. Bread-bare countries like Mexico and Iran were soon exporting wheat, the Philippines became self-sufficient in rice, even Pakistan had a harvest surplus. But soaring oil prices pushed the cost of essential petrochemical fertilizers out of reach of all but the wealthiest countries. Today nearly every country "revolutionized" by the Green Revolution is importing food from the world's half-dozen grain exporters, most notably...
...latest import spree will further strain Soviet finances. The country's trade deficit with the West-about $2.7 billion in the first quarter alone-is swelling at a record pace. Every dollar spent on grain is one less that can be used for badly needed high-technology goods, including computers and oil-drilling equipment...