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Shuman's plan coincides with the Johnson Administration's new determination that U.S. food should be used selectively as a lever to force hungry nations to expand their own agricultural production. He urged that this aim can best be realized by extending food aid to foreign countries only on condition that recipients 1) replace government management of agriculture with a market-price system and 2) encourage private capital investment by permitting incentives and checking inflation...
...these products, the Procter & Gamble Co. of Cincinnati, the pickings add up to sales of more than $2 billion a year and profits that reached $133.2 million in the fiscal year ended last June. P. & G. dwarfs its closest rivals, Colgate-Palmolive Co. (1964 sales: $806.6 million) and Lever Bros. Co. ($436.4 million), is the largest advertiser and 24th largest industrial company...
...food. The earth's population, already underfed, is expected to double by the year 2000, will then require three times as much food as it now grows. Consequently, when the present program expires at the end of 1966, the Johnson Administration plans to use farm surpluses as a lever to make underdeveloped nations grow more food for themselves...
Many West Germans see in the Oder-Neisse territories a high card that can be played in a deal with the Reds for reunification. The Bonn government, including Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder, would like to use them as a bargaining lever for establishment of an all-German government and the convening of a peace conference. But the Poles-who have moved 8,500,000 migrants of their own into the lost territories-are equally adamant that formal recognition of the Oder-Neisse boundary must precede any settlement of the German question...
...either of his colleagues, Jay therefore "broke instructions." He informed Lord Shelburne that he was prepared to hold separate talks with England, but only if England would acknowledge that it was dealing, not with rebellious colonies, but with the United States of America. Well aware that America was the lever that could swing the general settlement, Shelburne was delighted to lift the lever out of Vergennes' hands. He agreed to recognize the U.S., and on Oct. 29, 1782, negotiations began on a semisecret basis -that is to say, the U.S. commissioners truthfully told Vergennes that they were talking with...