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...through the years of recovery, war boom and the phenomenal postwar industrial expansion that is still going on. Erstwhile Tory businessmen were converted by the Liberal government's highly orthodox fiscal policies, its annual budget surpluses and its steady cutting of the national debt. Farmers liked the efficient grain-marketing system and price supports. Labor was won over when the Liberals coolly borrowed the most attractive social-security planks from the CCF Party...
...Feed and Grain Dealer R. C. Young of Lubbock was even more specific. He complained that some of the richest men in Lubbock and Crosby counties were turning up at his warehouse to pay $35 a ton for emergency feed, which he estimated cost the Government at least $70 a ton. "Some of these fellows," said Young, "have more oil wells than most of us have dollars.'' Among them, said he, was Rancher J. S. Bridwell, who is reportedly worth $18 million, and who got a month's supply (21 tons) of cottonseed meal at the Government...
...almost forgotten that he was, after all, a rock of strength as well-allowing for a few streaks of soft shale in the composition. The Selected Letters of Lord Byron, published this week with an introduction by Jacques Barzun, shows almost more intimately than the poems the vigorous male grain of the most varied and masterful English spirit of the Romantic...
...grain combine harvests 30 or more acres a day, cuts labor...
...astounding fact is that the U.S. Government is now operating some 100 separate types of business enterprises in which it has sunk at least $40 billion. Among other things, the Government has become the nation's largest insurer, electric-power producer, lender, landlord, grain owner, warehouse operator and shipowner. It monopolizes the world's biggest potential new industry: atomic energy...