Word: grains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sewer to Kitchen. Rats' appetites are a cause of human starvation. The World Health Organization puts the worldwide loss of stored cereals at 33 million tons a year-enough to feed some 200 million people. Rats in a silo may eat only a few bushels of grain, but their droppings and hair make a far greater quantity unfit for human consumption...
...increases are highest-about 5% -for carload or less-than-carload shipments of general merchandise. On such bulk goods as iron ore, grain, coal and pulpwood, which make up much of the railroad business, the increases average about 3%-somewhat less than the carriers requested. Even that much may not be allowed ultimately. Terming last week's decision a temporary one, the ICC ordered the roads to draw up a master tariff list, which the commission will examine and make final changes on in October...
...John." Last week, as the railroads convened in Chicago to begin working out their master tariff list, even some of the authorized increases seemed likely to be dropped. The Chicago & North Western announced that it will not add on the penny-per-hundred-lbs. increase in grain rates allowed by the ICC; the decision left competing Midwest railroads little choice but to main tain their old rate. Similarly, the Southern Railway said that old rates will remain on the grain hauled in its 100-ton "Big John" hopper cars...
Hurried Horse-Trading. The Japanese, for instance, managed a "deft switch in the important grain-aid plan, under which the industrial powers will give 4.5 million tons of grain a year to hungry nations. The plan, in itself a concession to the U.S. and other big grain producers that failed to get guaranteed access to Common Market grain markets during the negotiations, would have required Japan to purchase much of its 5% share of the total grain commitment. Loath to spend cash on that, the Japanese got eleventh-hour permission to substitute a mix of home-grown coarse grains, rice...
...final package included a massive list of 60,000 items on which tariffs are to be pulled down an average 35% by 1972, a special agreement on the thorny issue of chemical duties, a plan to provide grain for underdeveloped nations, and a code to curb below-cost "dumping" of products in world markets. Clearly reflected was the fact that there had been plenty of room for economic maneuver even after the weary Geneva negotiators, under firm prodding by GATT's British Director General, Eric Wyndham White, came to a basic agreement seven weeks ago (TIME...