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...Naow," he breathes, "I wanna see the maan whut uses it." The man that uses it turns out to be a woman, Jeanne Grain, and all this, no kidding, is the beginning of a beautiful romance. More's the pity, too, because, except for this monumental piece of what might be called "in-house humor," Man Without a Star has a roll-muh-own greasiness and good warm-leather reek about it that is rare in Hollywood westerns. The rootin', tootin' (with Claire Trevor as the whirly-girly) and shootin' are unusually low-falutin. There...
Last week 42-year-old Landon Butler's fortune was gone. A petition for involuntary bankruptcy was filed against him, and two grain firms sued him for millions. Charged Continental Grain Co., of Chicago and New York, and Manhattan's Leval & Co., Inc.: Butler had sold them $4,400,000 worth of nonexistent soybeans. Charged the U.S. Department of Agriculture: by fraudulent methods, Butler had tried to corner the soybean market...
...Carried Himself Well." To get cash, according to the Continental Grain Co. suit, Butler called Continental one day and offered to sell $3,100,000 worth of soybeans. Continental, an old Butler customer, agreed, and in exchange for its check it got a bunch of warehouse receipts for the beans, normal procedure in the soybean market. Leval made a similar deal for $1,300,000 worth of beans. But when a routine warehouse check was made, the companies charge, no soybeans were to be found...
...made Hungary one of the most useful of Soviet satellites. Slice by slice, Hungarian agricultural productivity was cut down to make way for industrial projects. Forced collectivization of farmlands drove farm workers into the factories, and the fertile country, once one of Europe's breadbaskets, had to import grain. But Hungarian steel and aluminum fattened the Soviet war potential and bulletheaded Boss Rakosi was so well regarded in Moscow that he escaped the cosmopolite" purge which carried off Czechoslovakia's Slansky, Rumania's Pauker and other Jewish Communist leaders before Stalin's death...
Inspecting imported wheat last week, the manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...