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Today the department's Commodity Credit Corp. has an independent bankroll larger than the assets of General Motors, with which to plunge in the commodity markets and manipulate food prices. In two massive buildings astride the Washington Mall-North Ag and South Ag-are eight miles of corridors and 4,844 rooms. In rooms stocked with calculating machines and tabulators, scores of statisticians concoct crop and market reports so potent that they could, if mishandled, send prices gyrating and throw the U.S. economy into galloping confusion...
...Brother Hance's reputation grew, he moved into successively larger quarters. The present St. Barnabas' Free Home at Gibsonia is an ivy-grown stone house of about 50 rooms in the midst of 147 acres, on which the home's milk and meat is raised. Another house at North East, Pa. has 37 patients. St. Barnabas' Brotherhood, founded as a religious order in 1913, now numbers five cowled and cassocked brothers. "One is an engineer," Hance explained last week, "a draftsman and all that. Me, I've got no brains...
Last week the New York Times, which has a larger foreign staff and publishes more foreign dispatches than any other U.S. newspaper, editorially remarked that it was tempted to resume the use of "Censored." As a case in point, the Times took up the "small and dwindling" corps of U.S. correspondents (now five) still permitted to do business in Moscow, including the Times's own Harrison Salisbury (who last week was back in the U.S. for a brief Minnesota vacation). Said the Times: "When [the Moscow correspondent] has written his dispatch, with the best accuracy he can muster...
...Federal insurance of bank loans up to $25,000 for small firms. 2. Private companies be set up under federal charter to furnish larger risk capital and long-term loans. 3. Increase in RFC's lending powers. 4. Put RFC under Commerce Department supervision. 5. Make direct grants to small businessmen like those made to farmers...
...Higher pay. 2. Larger old-age pensions. 3. Another fireman on diesel engines. 4. Higher accident insurance. 5. Longer vacations...