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...Buffalo last week, General Mills temporarily closed down the world's largest flour mill (3,700,000 Ibs. daily). For lack of freight cars, the company was unable to ship its flour to market. The shortage also hit grain shippers in the Grain sit where old-crop wheat was piling up-one Colorado town with 300 carloads to move could get only 30 cars. The Association of American Railroads said that the U.S. was facing the worst shortage of freight cars in railroading history
...Truman had been acting like "a fox terrier at bay, rather than a President guiding his nation through a crisis." Washington was shaking its head over Truman's latest tart remarks-directed this time against ex-President Hoover, whom he had invited to join in the appeal for grain for India. As he was leaving, Hoover told Truman: "I'm going to make a radio speech and criticize your foreign policy again." Snapped Truman: "You go ahead and say whatever you want to. It will do the country good to know just exactly where you and your crowd...
...reminder of how much hard political work needs to be done before Asia is in a position to defend itself against Communism. That the U.S. sees patience as a necessary element in the process is evident from the nation's sympathy toward Nehru's request for U.S. grain...
...Picked up a telephone and called Herbert Hoover in New York. "Mr. President, this is Harry Truman," said Harry Truman. He asked him (and Hoover agreed) to lend his prestige in appealing for the grain needed by famine-threatened India (TIME, Feb. 12). This week Truman formally asked Congress for authority to ship India the 2,000,000 tons of grain...
...soap-opera fan could guess, there would be a few more scenes of cliff-hanging suspense. Then India would get its grain...