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...harvest time, the Soviet press is usually full of propaganda hoopla about the bumper grain crops brought in by happy teams of Communist pioneers...
...this year. Facing the prospect of a 10% to 20% drop in grain production, Moscow has clamped a news blackout on the subject. And apart from a routine one-line announcement of a new trade agreement, there was not one word about the huge $500 million pur chase of Canadian wheat and flour that the Kremlin hopes will make up much of the deficit...
Sleigh Ride. But the Russian people had good reason to guess that a shortage lay ahead. Recently bread stores have rationed customers to two loaves per purchase, and Pravda last week launched a massive campaign against grain wastage and theft. The foreman of a mill in the Kaluga region south west of Moscow was ignominiously photographed with flour he had smuggled out in his pants. In the North Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties...
...sale seemed to confirm some Western suspicions about the state of Soviet agriculture. Russia has always been an exporter of wheat, and usually went into the market only to shore up its satellites or because it was cheaper to ship Canadian grain across the Pacific to Siberia than send its own wheat the 7,000-mile length of Russia. At that, the Soviets never bought more than 14.8 million bu. a year...
Inevitably, much of it turns out to be chaff; Frost, for instance, was a tireless and occasionally tiresome punster. But from the mass of letters stretching back to 1915, a perceptive reader can piece together a startling self-portrait of the artist. Some of it will go against the grain of Frost's more sentimental adulators. People thought of him, Untermeyer explains, "as benevolent, sweet and serene. Instead he was proud, trou bled and jealous. Robert did not converse, he spoke...