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...great backbone of President Crump's domain is 17,000 miles of railway through the most populous areas of Canada, and some 4,000 miles of branch lines into the northern U.S. Midwest. C.P.R. telegraphs, grain elevators, stockyards and abattoirs border the tracks. At principal stops are C.P.R.'s 15 hotels, including Quebec's famed Chateau Frontenac and the tourist meccas at Banff and Lake Louise. The company operates a fleet of ocean-going liners and freighters, as well as Canadian Pacific Air Lines, with routes to Asia, Australia, Latin America and Europe. C.P.R. also controls Consolidated...
Among India's many primitive sects, one of the strangest is the orgiastic Shakta. The five elements of Shakta worship are madya (liquor), mamsa (meat), matsya (fish), mudra (grain), and maithuna (sexual intercourse), and it has long been their custom to worship the Hindu goddess Shakti by seeking unity of body and soul in communal sex rites. Such is kanchalia dharam, the ceremony of the blouse...
...surrender too much power to an international agency. The organization, however, would not have supranational powers; it would serve merely as a coordinator of international bargaining for those who chose to use it. Its rules are flexible enough to allow the United States an exemption on the importation of grain. Although OTC would be a permanent organ, it commits the United States to little more than the original General Agreement...
...their tails to the winds. Sometimes it gets so bad that mud balls form on the animals' noses and eyes, and birds and animals are choked to death. I've seen hawks downed by the dusters. The lights go on at noon, and the wind whips out grain and grass and fences, and the tumbleweeds fly like they were jet-propelled...
Butler was getting ready to show cause to the Agriculture Department why he should not be expelled altogether. He would not comment on the lawsuits or the "nonexistent" soybeans. Said Continental Grain's Executive Vice President Julius Mayer, who is also head of the Chicago Board of Trade: "He was one of those Southern gentlemen; he carried himself well...