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...Business. But if Jim Patton's N.F.U. is big political business, it is also big money business, with a vested interest in high farm subsidies-the higher the better. The N.F.U.-founded Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association is worth $33 million, reaps about a $3.5 million cash harvest each year in Government payments for storing grain surpluses stimulated by N.F.U. high-subsidy policies. Among other N.F.U. interests...
...small egg, duck egg, goose egg, guinea egg, robin's egg, pigeon egg, quail egg, small pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist...
...term treatment of thrombosis patients, because it can be given handily by mouth. But the Wisconsin labs have synthesized more than 100 related substances, and one of these, Link suggested, would make a safe and deadly rat poison. He was right. Named warfarin,* it is usually applied to bait grain. Unsuspecting rats keep on eating it, eventually die of internal bleeding. In the U.S., said Link last week, 70,000 tons of warfarin-poisoned bait have been used without a single human death and with few accidents...
Last year there were 22,000,000 hungry Russians whom the Soviet government did not have grain enough to keep alive. The American Relief Association came to the rescue, and fed many of the starving. This year the American Relief Administration estimates there will be 13,000,000 hungry mouths that Russia cannot feed...
...There, in a curtained-off alcove out of sight of 200 mourners, they heard the Rev. Donald O'Connor of the Kansas City-founded Unity Society of Practical Christianity eulogize Arthur Eisenhower as "mild-mannered, even-tempered, humble . . . one of the top experts in the country in the grain and milling business...