Word: grains
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...surrogates" are assuming the task of bringing him to the people. But what does one hear from these men and women (females who are either family members or hold the crusading title, "Consumer Affairs Adviser?") Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz accuses McGovern of lying about the U.S.-Soviet Grain Deal, and days later Spiro Agnew announces an FBI investigation on the same topic (centering around the original charges made by McGovern). John Connally talks campaign money and Democrats-for-Nixon, but nothing else. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney travels to Pennsylvania and engages in political mud-slinging with...
This week in Canada the 350 members of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange are expected to approve the opening of the world's first market in gold futures. (They also plan to rename their organization the Winnipeg Commodities Exchange.) The buyers-both speculators and the big industrial users-would be people who expect the price of gold to rise. Working through a broker, they would put up 10% of the purchase price and get a contract for delivery at a future date up to 18 months away. Sellers would be people who expect the price to fall...
...former student loan program provide a maximum of $3900 at 3 per cent with a "grain" period before interest payments begun. The revenue to finance income protection is expected to come from the higher interest rate available under GILP--7 per cent from these not receiving Federal interest subsidies, and 7.75 per cent on subsidized. The extra three-quarters of one per cent is the current Federal interest supplement which may vary with market conditions...
...watchers are intrigued by the prominence of Colson, 40, once the lightly regarded head of the "department of dirty tricks." While remaining the hatchet man who keeps errant staffers in line and dreams up projects to embarrass the opposition, Colson also now mixes in such delicate matters as the grain sale to the Soviet Union. He has a sign on his wall that reads: " 'I hope the Nixon people do to George McGovern what the Democrats did-underestimate him. If they do that, we'll kill them.'-Gary Hart, Washington Post...
Peterson ended his talks convinced that more big deals like the recent threeyear, $750 million bilateral grain agreement are likely. Indeed, U.S. agriculture officials predicted last week that the Soviets would expand their purchases of farm products to as much as $1 billion in the next twelve months alone. Last week Peterson reported to President Nixon that eight days of trade talks with Soviet officials had disclosed "a top-level Soviet decision that it is important to get access to Western products." He also briefed TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter on the promise and the problems of Soviet-American trade. Schecter...