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...wheat? For one thing, Moscow was taken aback by the long delays in concluding the deal, by last year's acrimonious debate in the U.S. Senate over credit terms, and by the recent nine-day boycott of wheat shipments by U.S. longshoremen to ensure that 50% of the grain would move in U.S. bottoms. But the chief reason appears to be that Moscow has high hopes for a successful wheat crop this year, simply does not need any more wheat for the time being...
...ideas in scale drawings in pastel and charcoal before taking up his chisel and hammer. Yet his instinct with natural material rules his work. His guide is "marrying the inner intention to the wood"; like the action painter who follows the nature of his paint, Muir runs with the grain...
...Smith appears as the Narrator (some will call him a villain, some will call him God). Seductive and compassionate, Smith jokes with his audience and plays with his fellows on the stage. His song sets the score: "Try to Remember, those days in September when Grass was Green and grain was yellow." It is a season of moonlight and magic; and no one is so entranced as young lovers...
What made Gleason mad was a Maritime Administration ruling permitting Continental Grain Co. to ship 62% of the wheat it had sold to Russia aboard foreign-flag ships. President Kennedy, claimed Gleason, had promised that 50% of the wheat would move in U.S. bottoms. What's more, Gleason said, the new ruling threatened potential jobs for thousands of U.S. seamen. The Mari time Administration insisted that not enough U.S. ships were available to move the wheat to Russia. But the longshoremen charged that this was nothing but a dodge to let the grain companies take advantage of lower foreign...
...winter, serving small boys as a toboggan slope. When a traveler once congratulated a rural stationmaster on the bumper wheat crop pressing in on the tracks, the embarrassed official explained: "First, there was this shipment of fertilizer that never got picked up. Then there was that shipment of seed grain that didn't get delivered. They just got together...