Word: grains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wheat deal between the U.S. and the Communist bloc was about to crumble like a dry cooky. "I do have a feeling one might not come to an agreement," he told Moscow's visiting U.S. businessmen. "It may well happen that we will let you eat your own grain...
Since the grain deal is tricky politics at best, the Kennedy Administration is doing its best to make it appear no giveaway. Anxious to see the deal go through, U.S. shippers have agreed to trim their prices to within a few dollars of foreign rates. The Administration also has another way around its shipping dilemma: let its eager private dealers sell the grain on a "cost-and-freight" basis, under which they will arrange the shipping themselves, and include the cost in the total package. The dealers will take a chance on getting smaller profits if they have to ship...
...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...officials are confident that some thing can be worked out. For one thing, foreign shipping rates have been rising since the Communists began preempting cargo space for Western wheat. For another, the 400-odd U.S. merchant vessels capable of carrying grain may be nearly all booked up anyway when the Russia-bound wheat is ready to move. In any case, said Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman after a session with the Russians, the situation "looks very promising...
...news to C.D.U. political professionals who have begun to think about the 1965 elections. As a necessary sop to the farmers and as a disappointment to his ideological supporters, Politician Erhard is currently soft-pedaling his free-market ideals as far as agriculture is concerned and promises that grain prices will stay artificially high...