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...three chief resources have been its fabulous mines of law, politics and social (including economic) organization. The abundance of material things -the bales of cotton, bushels of corn, ingots of steel-is a byproduct of these three primary riches, not the take from a geographic roulette wheel or the hoard of materialist greed. Today's drive of the U.S. Negro toward equality is as strong as any social tide in Asia or Africa or Europe. At the centers of those other drives for change stand agitators, conspirators, men of violence. The strength and flexibility of the U.S. Constitution make...
Weird Workings. The low quality of the Government's hoard is due largely to the weird workings of a price-support system under which farmers for years have produced not for the market but for Government storage bins, ranging from mothballed ships to tents...
Before Wright, Folger was sometimes known as a literary Fort Knox, with its invaluable treasures buried in regulations. Built and endowed (with $11.5 million) in 1930 by Oil Tycoon Henry Clay Folger to house his vast, scattered hoard of Shakespeariana, the library was run almost like an exclusive club. Only scholars known to its staffers could gain access to its books and manuscripts-after writing in advance. Even the favored few were stopped by the silken rope, had to sit on a bench until a staff member came to escort them to the books. As a result, days went...
...Department of Agriculture was touring India with samples of U.S. ghee made from surplus butter. If Indian dairymen like it, William G. Lodwick. an Iowa farmer, now Administrator of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, may have solved the U.S. surplus-butter problem. (Size of the problem: a Government-owned hoard of 260 million Ibs., worth $168 million...
...Russian Help. This month, in one of those outbursts of recriminations that occur in Mexico City's colony of Spanish ex-Loyalists, Indalecio Prieto stirred up the long-buried story of the gold hoard, accused his fellow exile, Juan Negrín, of complicity. This time, Franco's Spain picked up Prieto's accusations. In formal notes to the U.S., Britain and France, Franco's Foreign Minister protested against Russian use of the Spanish gold in European trade. Since the Russians have undoubtedly melted down the coins and removed the Spanish mint marks from the bullion...