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...season in the Ukraine had ruined the harvest, and vast quantities of grain had rotted on the railroad sidings; in the Volga region, dry winds cut crops. It did not matter to Khrushchev that these failures were aggravated by his own plan to switch wheat production to Siberia, and that the harvest in the Ukraine had been delayed (and a fourth of it lost) because he had ordered much of the machinery for its collection removed to Siberia. All he wanted was something to pin on Malenkov, head of the negligent government ministries...
...Knight must belong to the school that believes our ancestors were apes (if Christ is a legend, what else can you believe?), that our world came into being from revolving gaseous matter. Now if she could explain who put the swirling gas into existence, I might discover a grain of truth in her fantastic statements...
...U.S.S.R. is facing a food shortage. A disastrous winter in the Ukraine and dry winds in the Volga area seriously affected the 1953-54 harvest. A quarter of the grain was lost "through delays in harvesting, which sometimes took 45 days, as a result of the shortage of harvesting machinery" (much of it had been moved to Siberia to take care of Khrushchev's ambitious scheme for developing that dry and virgin area). In the same winter the meat and dairy industry suffered severe setbacks, and the U.S.S.R. lost 2% of its sheep flock...
...machine-tool industry was criticized for using obsolete methods and being behind production in electric motors, steam engines, metal-cutting lathes, chemical, textile and rolling mill equipment, and most particularly in freight cars, self-propelled grain combines, tractor cultivators and threshing machines...
...Braidwood is not sure whether the pit-house dwellers were truly agricultural. Their mortars proved that they ground some sort of grain, but they may have collected wild seeds instead of planting crops. He hopes to have some sort of answer to this question after the dirt of M'lefaat has been sifted for fragments of grain and other meaningful trifles. Even without this evidence, it looks as if M'lefaat may be one of man's earliest attempts to live in a permanent community...