Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comintern's fight on the Marshall Plan. The Soviet Union had already committed itself to distribute 850,000 tons among Eastern European satellites-Czechoslovakia (400,000), Poland (300,000), Finland (150,000)-plus unknown amounts to Rumania and Bulgaria. There were also hints of Soviet grain for France, Belgium, Norway in exchange for industrial machinery...
Last week, the Soviet State Planning Commission pointedly announced that Russia's 1947 crop was 58% more than last year's. Agriculture experts believed the actual figure was near 61,000,000 tons, or only about 25% above last year. Just how much grain Russia would be able to spare for bread-politics abroad depended on whether Joseph Stalin fulfilled his long standing promise to lift bread rationing at home. At any rate, on the hungry Continent, only Russia watched winter's approach without apprehension...
Married. Congressman John Grain Kunkel, 49, shy darling of Dauphin County, Pa. Republican women, and brave host to some 800 of them at an annual squealy luncheon (TIME, May 19); and Katherine Smoot Kunkel, fortyish, widow of a Kunkel cousin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Arlington...
...nation's grain pits, the law of gravity seemed to have been repealed. This week, as prices still went up, December wheat futures at Chicago hit $3.07 and cash wheat soared to a 27-year high of $3.11. On the way, wheat dragged up the cost of many another food. President Truman last week had again tried to put all the blame on his favorite whipping boy: the grain speculators or gamblers, as he termed them (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The idea that the Government's huge exports of wheat had caused the market's rise was misinformation...
...Farmers. Grain speculation, as Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson observed only a few hours after the President's fluff, had already fallen off; trading had fallen 53% since the one-third cash margin rule was put into effect two weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 13). But the price of grain went right on rising. Next day, when rumors spread that CCC was about to step out of the market, the price of wheat fell off a bit, but continued its climb when the rumor proved false. So long as the Government bought, there was no reason for grain prices...