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...fact, high price for spot cotton, which a fortnight ago climbed above 21? a lb.-a 15-year high-was the result of a boost in the parity price, and Lend-Lease. In the past month Lend-Lease bought 330,000 bales for immediate shipment. The lag in futures quotations reflected the pessimism with which traders and cotton buyers view the future...
...fact, also, the cotton market is so manipulated politically that, while everybody else loses, the potent 2,000,000 cottongrowers cannot. Commodity Credit Corporation must lend them up to 90% of the parity price for their crops. If prices go up, the growers can reclaim their cotton for private sale. But if prices start downward, an artificial scarcity is created. For eleven years cottongrowers have unloaded their surpluses on the U.S. taxpayer, and have used the taxpayer's money to build a firm floor under cotton prices. CCC cotton holdings last month: seven million bales...
...think we've turned military on our side of the river, lend an car to be latest plight of our representatives at Wellesl'ey. In a note from the brig of Eat feline haven, Hafner reports the following: "Come Wednesday and we had an inspection by WAVES. One of the more corpulent numbers asked Goff if he curled his eyelashes as well as his hair. "Laughed, hence the present address...
...hundred miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...
...Long after the collapse of Germany, leather will probably be scarce: even the minimum Lend-Lease and UNRRA needs will sop up most of the expected drop in military demand. In 1943, long before much "rehabilitation" was militarily feasible, the Army shipped almost 9,000,000 pairs of shoes for Lend-Lease account...