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...there was still any doubt that U.S. farmers were holding back vast amounts of grain for even higher prices, it was dispelled last week by Thomas D. Campbell, the world's largest wheat grower...
Fortunately the rumor, like the original report, was an exaggeration. Only a few Americans, including T. F. Bridgers, a North Carolina goober grower who sent a 100-pound sack, had responded with small shipments. Meantime the elephants' trunks were responding nicely to buns and radio therapy...
...childhood home, had been bought by a local fruit farmer who now proposed to restore it. He would maintain it as a literary shrine, although he had never read any of her poetry: "I wouldn't understand it. ... It's beyond the brain of a fruit grower...
...British claimed that they were only trying to protect the native grower "from short-term fluctuations of world prices." They denied any intention of nullifying the United Nations' economic agreements (see above). But to U.S. cocoa importers these protestations had a hollow ring. British price-fixing had little effect in wartime, when U.S. cocoamen could buy only what was allotted to them by international agreement, and could sell only at ceiling prices. Now, with ceilings off and allocations due to go Jan. 31, importers were hoping for a free market...
Moscow-trained Viet Nam Leader Ho Chih-minh did not mourn for Thinh, the statesman, or for Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite...