Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posies were justified. Moscow had promised Cyrankiewicz a dazzling price for Poland's abstention from the Marshall Plan: a five year, billion-dollar trade agreement-plus a $450 million credit (the largest ever granted by the Soviet Union) and immediate delivery of 200,000 tons of Soviet grain...
...mirror had to be a paraboloid (a slightly deeper curve than a hollow sphere), accurate to two-millionths of an inch. Each grinding and polishing was done with fanatical watchfulness. Visitors were asked to remove their shoes, like pious worshipers at the door of a mosque; a single grain of tracked-in sand might scratch up the glass and spoil months of work...
...rebellion broke out this week. In defiance of President Truman's wishes (but not of any binding order) most U.S. distillers resumed normal production for the first time since Oct. 24. They had voluntarily closed down for two months, had then been limited to 50% of their normal grain consumption for another month by a temporary law which expired...
President Truman, whose plea for new restrictions on distilling had been turned down by Congress, appealed directly to the liquor industry to limit itself. But the distillers weren't impressed. They knew that preliminary estimates on the 1948 wheat crop were so favorable that last week the grain market had a severe slump (see Col. 3). They could quote Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's own optimistic testimony (on the European Recovery Program) that grain supplies were ample. They could point to foreign distilleries using grain for whiskey (for export to the U.S. for dollars...
...their best argument was two Government-owned distilleries at Omaha, Neb. and Muscatine, Iowa. In December, Secretary Anderson had promised distillers to shut off grain from the Government plants, leased to private operators. But Anderson later changed his mind, gave the Omaha still 60,000 bushels a month, gave Muscatine...