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...efforts of other countries to develop their own agricultural economies." In addition, to meet "unprecedented demands arising out of drought and the war in Asia," Johnson announced a 10% increase in rice acreage in 1966, and said that corn-belt farmers would be encouraged to switch some feed-grain acreage to soybeans, a high-protein oilseed of which the U.S. has virtually no reserve stocks...
...David among Goliaths-yet he could be the most philistine of men. He called himself "a grain of sand in the public's eye," and he could be just as irritating. His friend Ben Hecht called him "a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into one." To Showman Billy Rose, compliments and catcalls were one and the same. Every knock was a boost, every insult a reminder that at least people were talking about him-as they had from the time he was a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side until his death last...
...spectacular productions. His break with Brice made international headlines; his divorce from his second wife, Eleanor Holm, cost him over a quarter of a million dollars. His marriage to Doris Vidor lasted six months; his third and fourth wives were the same woman-Joyce Matthews. In recent years, the grain of sand decided to leave the public eye, but there was no getting out, or no need to, for that matter. Rose had traded his Broadway sports jacket for a Wall Street vest. He owned 160,000 shares of AT&T which made him the company's biggest single...
...which had previously enabled Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Baltimore to receive more advantageous rates to and from the Midwest. Recent mergers have not favored Boston, and a dramatic example of railroad trouble occurred this winter when Boston was unable to ship government wheat to India because the two city's grain elevators, both leased by railroad companies, had been closed down. The advantage of railroad proximity to piers (in Boston cargo can be loaded directly onto railway cars) has become less valuable since truck transport now accounts for 80 per cent of the traffic...
This will not be easy. For one thing, the rice-eating people of Kerala stubbornly refuse to supplement their diet with other grain. Thus President Johnson's announcement last week authorizing shipment of 3,000,000 tons of wheat and maize to replenish India's depleted food supplies will be a boon to the nation, but will not necessarily keep the rioters off the streets in Kerala...