Word: grains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World production of grain (other than rice) is rising; but meats, fats and sugar are still down...
...Government Chen holds no job. He exerts his influence in other ways. From his post as Secretary-General of the Kuomintang's Central Political Council ("the politburo"), Chen runs the local party machinery through control of hsien-township-magistrates. Chen's magistrates collect the taxes, confiscate the grain for the armies, run' conscription...
...Starves First? The 40 million people in the U.S.-British zone need at least 850,000 tons of grain a month to live. Since January, the U.S. (with Britain paying half the bill) has provided about 330,000 tons of that amount each month. The rest was to come from German home production. U.S. supplies fell behind by about 130,000 tons, and German supplies last week were about 200,000 tons short of their quota. The German failure was partly due to the severe winter, which had destroyed stocks and disrupted communications, but chiefly to the breakdown...
...pointed out that America had exported over five million tons of grain last year, which was news to them all. None of them had heard of UNRRA aid in the Ukraine and Byelorussia. The old man countered the reference to UNRRA aid with: "Why are you also so kind to the Germans?" I replied: "The Russians are being kind to the Germans in Germany too." The old man answered: "That is true. We have heard it from our sons in the occupation Army. But why are you against our getting even ten billion in reparations? We need it because...
...nerve center of U.S. agricultural economics is the vast, modern Chicago Board of Trade Building. Its massive 41 floors loom as large as agriculture does in the U.S. economy. Ceres, goddess of grain, stands pre-eminent at the very top of the building. In the grain pits below, more grain is bought & sold than anywhere else in the world, sometimes months before it is even grown. Last week a TIME correspondent paid a visit to Ceres' slightly mad court...