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While Congress stood still, India's onrushing famine did not. Grain reserves dwindled, and worried officials got set for a repetition of the great Bengal famine of 1943, when so many people starved to death that no one ever properly estimated their numbers-from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 people. Red China offered to help, though so far it had delivered only promises. Red China would score a propaganda victory if it delivered grain when the U.S. would...
...these cheap and perilous fission products? The institute gives a long list of promising industrial uses: to sterilize food products and surgical dressings without heat, by passing them through intense radiation; to kill mold on the outside of cheese or fruit; to destroy weevils and other pests in grain elevators. Probably even more important are the chemical uses. Radiation breaks up many chemical molecules, encouraging them to recombine into new compounds. Chemical plants of the future, says the institute, may use fission products to turn out valuable substances that cannot be made in any other practical...
...over a month ago. It has the support of many Congressional leaders, and President Truman has repeatedly prodded Congress for action on it. Every day it becomes more crucial that Congress authorize the grant, since the monsoon season comes to India during the summer and makes the reshipment of grain within the country very difficult. If the grain does not leave this country soon, there will be much suffering in India by the end of the summer...
There had been White House Doctor Wallace Graham playing the cotton market (he didn't have the "slightest idea" cotton was a commodity, he explained); there were the Five Percenters; there was Personal Aide Harry Vaughan caught with his pudgy fingers deep in war-scarce stocks of molasses, grain and building materials -and now the RFC and mink coats...
...eggs from Rhode Island Reds. Beaverbrook's Daily Express blew its patriotic top, offered to fly 1,000 day-old chicks or good British hatching eggs to Gambia. While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced, the government authorized spending of more scarce dollars for American grain. British poultry farmers protested because their production is curtailed by government restrictions on purchase of overseas grain...