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Troilus' firm foundation is British Poet Christopher Hassall's libretto, which keeps things happening from curtain-up. The plot presents the human side of the besieged Trojans and particularly the widow Cressida (sung by Phyllis Curtin), who succumbs to Troilus (Jon Grain), partly through the conniving of Pandarus (Norman Kelley), only to be captured by the Greeks. By the time she puts herself to the sword, she is at least as credible as Tosca, as touching as Mimi...
...limit of 300 bushels on the amount of new wheat it would accept from any farmer during the harvest season. But the harvest could not wait. In the finest autumn weather in years, giant combines cut wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when all the sheds were filled, piled their wheat in amber hillocks on the ground. When the harvest was in, Canada's supply...
...busting 614-million-bushel wheat crop instead of the usual 55%-60%. Rust and harvesttime rain cut last year's crop to 309 million bushels, but exports again fell off sharply. Britain withdrew from the International Wheat Agreement, India and France began to grow more of their own grain as a matter of national policy, and Argentina, bouncing back from a year-long drought, stepped up its sales in Latin America. The U.S., burdened with a giant surplus of its own, made other inroads into the world market through a series of bargain-price sales and disaster-relief gifts...
...reached the legal limit. In Alberta farm towns, barter in livestock began to replace cash sales. In Saskatchewan, idle farmers swamped the National Employment Service with job applications. Last week the government offered a stopgap plan for the government to guarantee bank loans to farmers with stocks of unsalable grain. The scheme disappointed many farmers, who had hoped for straight cash advances on their crops. Meanwhile, Ottawa prepared to send a delegation of trade experts to Geneva this week to fight for renewal of the International Wheat Agreement and its system of orderly marketing. If they fail, the international fire...
...hero (Gordon MacRae) rides into the picture, looking about as indigenous as Gene Autry, and singing in a well-schooled voice about the corn that's as high as an elephant's eye, the camera glides through what is probably the most expensive field of the native grain ever grown...