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...week Canada arranged two neat deals to sell part of the worrisome surplus behind the Iron Curtain for cash. To Red-run Czechoslovakia will go 300,000 lbs. of butter at 42½? a lb.-15½? less than the government's own purchasing price. For $19 million, grain-hungry Poland will get 10 million bu. of low-grade wheat...
...Konrad Adenauer in the Waldorf Tower. After three hours all plans were dovetailed, all differences ironed out. The ministers agreed to meet with other NATO representatives in Paris on July 10, as a prelude to Geneva. As the diplomats parted, the new confidence was salted with a grain of caution. Said Antoine Pinay: "It would be very naïve to take signs as proof of Russia's peaceful intentions. You don't tear up your insurance policy merely because an architect comes and tells you your house is well built...
...gold and grey arm band, and a West Point medal surmounted by the name plate: EISENHOWER '15. Forty-four years before, "Eisenhower from Kansas, sir," the man in grey mufti had enrolled at West Point, class of 1915, after a couple of years' hard slogging at shocking grain, forking wild ponies and stoking fires at an Abilene creamery...
...fantastic and deplorable." This week Secretary Benson was scheduled to go to Hutchinson, Kans. for a conference with some 5,000 farmers, millers and bakers to outline an incentive plan under which farmers might be paid premiums for strong-gluten wheat, and possibly even penalized for weak-gluten grain...
Commercial millers are willing to pay a premium of 25? a bushel for strong-gluten wheat. In a free market, this premium would encourage farmers to produce the high-quality grain. But it has not worked that way under the support program. While drought and a siege of rust have cut down on the output of strong-gluten grain, the price-support program has encouraged wheat farmers to sacrifice quality for quantity...