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...string to the trigger of a .22 cal. rifle, aimed it at her head and pulled the string. In south Buffalo an ice dam backed up Cazenovia Creek until a wall of water finally burst the ice; the resulting wave swept automobiles underwater, ripped a 515-ft.-long grain boat from its moorings in the Buffalo River and slammed it into the steel-girdered Michigan Avenue Bridge. The bridge shivered and collapsed...
DROPPING FARM PRICES will put parity below 80% for first time in 19 years. Lower prices are coming for cotton, grain, citrus, eggs, milk...
According to the Red Chinese themselves, 1958 was a bumper year down on the communal farm: 375 million tons of grain produced, more than double the 1957 output. The farmers of Yunnan province were reported floundering in grain. With storehouses bulging, tubs of wheat had to be crammed inside peasants' homes...
...rejoicing over this "great leap forward" could hardly be heard last week in Red China's cities. Reason: city dwellers had just been told that, despite the talk of a record yield, their grain rations had been cut. A "very heavy worker" in Peking, who used to get the maximum of 20.6 lbs. of wheat flour a month, will now get only twelve. Similar cuts hit the smaller rations of white-collar workers, shopkeepers and children...
From Peking, the Agence France Presse correspondent reported through censorship "lively discontent . . . The man on the street has difficulty understanding why he is being sacrificed for the benefit of the peasants." Observers offered a number of reasons: Red China is exporting about 2,000,000 tons of grain a year; China's archaic and anarchic transportation system, being rebuilt by the Reds, is bogged down lugging pig iron for the nation's new steel industry; the bureaucracy is making a mess of distribution. Last month the people of Canton, who live next to a sea of fish, could...