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...Gene Cox and his little clique had smothered the relief bill in committee. But now church groups across the nation were demanding action. So were many people who saw no reason why Communist China, with famine on its own hands, should harvest a psychological victory by supplying India with grain, while the U.S., which has a wheat surplus, was denying it to a nation in need. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who can control Southern Democrats like Cox when he has to, ordered him to get busy...
Yielding a point himself, Rayburn offered a compromise. Instead of an outright gift, the U.S. would lend India $190 million on easy terms to buy the necessary 2,000,000 long tons of grain. The terms would be left up to ECA (probably 35 years to pay at 2½% interest), and India could repay the loan in strategic materials such as monazite (a source of fissionable thorium), jute and manganese...
...crowds drift past, slowly, pausing to talk and exclaim and now & then to ask a price. Their money, peeled with deliberation from well-thumbed rolls, or dredged from purses hauled from women's skirt bands, goes mostly to the shopkeepers behind the great shallow straw baskets of grain...
Only those with money get food. The shopkeepers show stony-faced callousness for the blind beggar boy, the orphan girl haltingly thrusting an empty G.I. ration can toward the grain baskets...
...Beriberi in the rice bowl proved to be one of the simplest diseases to prevent and cure. It is caused by a vitamin (mainly BI) deficiency and can be stopped by putting enough BI in the diet.-There is plenty of BI in the outer coating of the rice grain and its seed germ, but both are removed as bran in the milling. Nearly all of the world's billion rice-eaters mill and polish their grain. They eat vitamin-poor white rice, and feed the vitamin-rich bran to their chickens...