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...auctioneer knocks down Dale Peterson's cattle, hogs and plow at fractional prices, and the camera swings away from Corning. It swings expertly for the next 45 minutes through farms and storage bins around the nation, through the giant stockpiles of grain stored in Liberty ships, finally catches youngsters in Washington singing America the Beautiful. Then it comes back to the grim visage of Secretary Benson, who has indeed been taking an occasional note...
Food Preservation. Radiation may prove itself a cheap and convenient method to kill bugs in stored grain. Army Quartermaster tests show that radiation will also cut spoilage in onions and potatoes, preserve bread, chicken, pork and some vegetables without refrigeration, extend the refrigerated shelf life of beef and lamb as much as ten times. In five to 20 years food radiation will be a sizable industry...
Benson also recommended a vigorous effort to dispose of the surpluses already held by the U.S., even by selling or bartering in the grain-short Communist colonies of Eastern Europe. His program also included a proposal to help some 1.5 million low-income farmers to improve their farming efficiency or, failing that, to aid them in their transition to non-farm employment...
...people to attain by superhuman effort. The sixth piatiletka (1956-60) is more than usually superhuman: in the next five years heavy industry must be up 70%, pig iron up 70%, steel up 51%, coal up 49%, oil up 100%, building up 52%, consumer goods up 60%; in agriculture grain production must increase 80%, while labor efficiency on state farms must rise 70%, on collectives 100%. Incentives are a calculated feature of piatiletki: 55 million workers will be in regular employment, the planners say, with wages up 30%; there will be 50% more technicians and specialists and more than twice...
...want -Paris silks, sail boats, U.S. breakfast cereals. On the land, output rose 23% in 1954. Per capita income is $450, highest in the Middle East. Water now flows through 65 miles of 66-in., Israeli-made pipe to irrigate 50,000 Negev desert acres planted to cotton and grain. Israel has struck oil near Beersheba. Though foreign estimates indicate that Israel will be lucky if the find cuts her present $35 million-a-year petroleum imports by much, the first well is already producing 300 barrels a day for Haifa's refinery. Though foreign firms have not exactly...