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Meanwhile, the peasants who own their own farms (kulaks, in the Soviet lexicon) balked at selling grain to the state at a loss. Farmers, asked why wheat was still stacked on their fields, shrugged and said they just had not got around to it. Said one blandly: "We have plenty of time...
...Tito there was not plenty of time. Unthreshed grain was rotting. His whole long-range program rested-as had Stalin's-on the premise of more & more grain for a growing city proletariat and the army. Communist Tito last week warned lawyers who drafted peasants' petitions for release from collectives that they would be considered "enemies of the people." Newspapers appealed to peasants to get their grain in, but also admitted that the government's "weak organization" had been at fault...
...morally, that today not the star but the screenplay's the thing. But the majority of producers insist that what Hollywood needs is a return to the oldest lure of all. They are taking hasty steps to reglamorize their "properties." Typical recent case: Darryl F. Zanuck ordered Jeanne Grain out of her demure aprons and put her into bathing suits, which she fills more than adequately. And they are searching feverishly for the girl who can put glamor back in business...
...days, cornering a market in commodities or stocks was a favorite pastime among the wizards of Wall Street and the giants of the grain pits. But now, making a corner is illegal, unless it is done accidentally; in recent years the feat has been accomplished only rarely. Last week there was a growing belief that a combine of speculators had cornered the July futures market in rye-and made a big killing...
...July rye and their rush to "cover" had pushed up the price. Another factor pointed to a corner: at the end of the trading period, there were still 952 "open contracts" in July rye (i.e., agreements to buy and sell), which could riot be executed because there was no grain available, indicating that someone had bought up the visible supply...