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...developing industry he claimed the island could in time establish a balanced economy that would overcome the crippling grip of the one-crop system...
...Europe's and Asia's emergency lay with U.S. grain farmers, who have about 365,000,000 bushels of wheat stored in their bins. Last week, as a rumor spread through the Midwest grain bowl that ceiling prices might be pushed higher, farmers took a firmer grip on their supplies instead of hauling them to market. Receipts of grains at Midwest terminals were down to a trickle. Great Lakes steamers, making their first 1946 runs to Duluth, Superior and Port Arthur, found scant cargoes at the cavernous elevators...
...missions last November by refusing to act as a procurement agency. But the missions simply bought in the open market. Since V-J day, only three small missions, out of a total of some 115, have gone home. And as the British Government tightened its grip on foreign trade, there were few signs that any other governments were going to stop centralized purchasing. U.S. foreign traders thought they knew what the U.S. should do. The Export-Import Bank, said they, should make no loans unless foreign trade is returned to private hands...
Perhaps it was already too late for mere talk about solidarity; some good solid political threats might be in order. The GOP-Dixie Democratic opposition appeared to have an unbreakable grip on the legislative reins. Last week the opposition had got together to the point of moving out into the open and organizing its own steering committee to shape its battle plans...
...admiration for the Russian people."* But whether Russia takes "an honored place in the van of world organization . . . depends only on the decisions taken by the handful of able men who under their renowned chief hold all the 180,000,000 Russians and many more outside Russia in their grip...