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...mission involved no major technological breakthrough. In a sense, both Apollo and its 20-story Saturn IB booster are antiques, having been built some nine years ago for the moon program. Still, unexpected gremlins can turn up in even the most time-tested equipment and procedures, witness the repeated difficulties encountered by the three Skylab missions...
...some had doubled or tripled by mid-1974. But after the oil crisis helped push the West into recession, commodities prices tumbled, in some cases to a third of what they had been at the peak. Copper, for example, rose nearly 300% in 17 months, peaking at $1.40 per Ib. a year ago; this month the price fell as low as 560. The roller-coaster performance took its toll on producers and consumers alike. The price upswing aggravated inflation in industrialized countries. The downturn sent shock waves through the nonindustrialized Third World nations, some of whom depend heavily on commodities...
...owners to break and to dismantle the strikers. Scabs are, of course, both villians and victims--they are tricked and used by the growers to take jobs away from other workers--but there is a special sense of betrayal when a scab like the six-foot, four-inch, 300-Ib Mike Falco assaults a 65-year-old striker...
...have replaced the old-style support prices, under which the Government actually bought up the commodities and stockpiled them. The new target price would be increased as follows: on wheat from $2.05 per bu. to $3.10; on corn from $1.38 per bu. to $2.25; on cotton from 38? per Ib...
...increase in milk supports would raise consumer prices by 6? per gal. on milk and 15? per Ib. on butter, the Department of Agriculture estimates. The rise in target prices on cotton would immediately start Government payments flowing to farmers because the new target price would be above the present market level of about 40? per Ib. The rise could also cause some farmers who had been diverting land from cotton to soybeans to switch back again, thereby shrinking soybean supplies and possibly raising prices of the beans and also of cattle and hogs that are fed on them...