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Mountains for Sale. The markets Canada is likely to find for its wheat look encouraging, too, should help eat into the mountainous stockpiles of surplus grain. The Canadian Wheat Board reported that exports rose last year to 316 million bu.-highest in five years-leaving a carryover of 614,800,000 bu. on hand at the start of the new crop year, Aug. 1. This year the stockpile should shrink considerably...
...nationalistic glory it yearns for, the Arab world needs water. The Middle East thirsted when Moses "smote the rock twice: and the water came out," and it thirsts now. By and large, its lands have the necessary soils and minerals, lack only irrigation to bloom with fruit and grain. Last week, in his United Nations speech, President Eisenhower took due note that water could end much Middle Eastern misery, and offered U.S. aid in getting it. In Washington other top officials showed how water could be found. Some ways and means: ¶ Radioactive isotopes. To find underground water, which...
...world's record. Hatless in the 90° heat, Krylov ignored the official interpreter, barraged Campbell with questions in English. Both Russians tested the chaff spewed from the combines for any wheat kernels that might have been missed, rode the combines, fingered the dirt and the grain, expressed admiration for U.S. conservation methods. When told that Tom Campbell's fields yielded more than 40 bu. an acre from 20 Ibs. of seed, they seemed incredulous; Russian wheat farmers do well to get 32 bu. an acre from nearly 100 Ibs. of seed...
...first time that Tom Campbell had shown the Russians a thing or two about wheat. A pioneer in farm mechanization, he was invited to Moscow by Stalin in 1929 to advise the Russian Grain Trust on growing wheat. When the Russian farm delegation recently asked to see America's best mechanized farm, President Eisenhower, an old friend of Campbell's, asked the Agriculture Department to put them under Tom Campbell's wing. Campbell assured the Russians that they could achieve the same yield by adopting U.S. methods, clinched his argument by revealing that the winter wheat...
Died. Burton Holmes, 88, lecturer, globetrotter, film maker, autobiographer (The World Is Mine), who in 1904 coined the word travelogue; in Hollywood. Son of a Chicago grain broker, Holmes became a world traveler in his teens, spent 55 summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8,000 film-illustrated lectures, formed an accurate picture of the world for millions of Americans in the leisurely years before radio and the airliner. "I am not an explorer," said Holmes. "The South Pole belongs to Byrd and Amundsen, and they can have it." He filled his Manhattan apartment with...