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BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight's list of suspects includes Terry-Thomas, Dorothy Lamour, Jeanne Grain and Carolyn Jones...
Five straight years of poor harvests not only helped crimp Russia's economic expansion, but, by forcing the government to buy grain abroad, also reduced its gold reserves to a level estimated by the CIA at considerably less than $2 billion. There was a slight drop in industrial production, which grew at a rate of nearly 6% annually in the past two years v. 7% in the U.S. Moreover, the CIA sees little chance that Russia will again be able to achieve the sustained high overall growth rate (7.4% on average) that marked its economy in the 1950s...
...wake of Continental's big deal, U.S. grain companies are now looking for a bumper harvest of Soviet orders. All told, the Russians are expected to buy 4,000,000 tons of wheat-150 million bushels-for some $300 million...
...special assistant to the deputy director of the Foreign Economic Administration. The war also brought Fuller another change: for the first time since he started his life over again in 1927, he was able to originate something that was not "anticipatory" but actually put to use: adapting mass-produced grain storage silos for military living units. Hundreds of these "Dymaxion Deployment Units" saw service in the Pacific and the Persian Gulf before restrictions tightened on steel and the project ground to a halt...
...short lines go about it by specializing in such bulk commodities as grain or ore, servicing isolated factories, mines and installations that have been bypassed by the main lines. Most of them can survive because they carry no passengers, have comparatively low property valuations, few employees (some get by with a dozen) and small tax and debt loads. Many short lines are terminal or switching operations owned by bigger roads, or bridge lines that run between two big roads. But the short-haul roads, which perform on a small scale the same functions as the big lines, are the heart...