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...flat, reedy voice, the little Premier told the cheering crowd that this month's harvest and massive new U.S. grain shipments would end the worst part of the food crisis within four weeks. Aware that accepting such increased aid from the U.S. had exposed him to leftist criticism, Shastri hotly insisted that he was remaining on the path of the late beloved Jawaharlal Nehru - whose "nonaligned" posture did not prevent him from taking healthy doses of help from the West. As for his Communist attackers, he said they think "in terms of destruction and not construction" and have...
Farmers should take in a near-record $36.6 billion this year despite a harvest that has been thinned by drought in many parts of the U.S. The results are even better for consumers. The products of U.S. farms are now so cheap and plentiful that Americans spend only 18.7% of their after-tax income for food v. 30% for families in England and France and nearly 50% in Russia...
...Music Hall runs a picture as long as it keeps earning at least $102,000 a weekend (actually Thursday through Sunday). Both Random Harvest and The Greatest Show on Earth ran for eleven weeks, but did not gross as much as the others...
...also entered in about 20 international exhibitions each year. This week some 50 U.S. processors go looking for customers at a joint Government-industry exhibit in Vienna, and the Agriculture Department opens a food fair in Frankfurt. Result of all the activity: 15% of the American farmer's harvest now goes to market abroad, compared with 8% of the nation's industrial output; last year U.S. meat exports alone rose 36% . Japan ranks as the biggest customer, followed by Canada and Britain. As West Germany's biggest agricultural supplier, the U.S. ships not only such staples...
...Austrian models dressed as cowgirls. Last month the Agriculture Department flew an American Indian chief in full regalia to a German fair to get Germans to try corn, wild rice, pumpkins and frozen turkey. However foreigners may shake, bake or slice the U.S. products, American farmers, who regularly harvest more than the U.S. can consume or give away, are more than happy to sell them the makings...