Word: lodwick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GULBENKIAN (289 pp.)-John Lodwick, in collaborafion with D. H. Young-Doubleday...
...close to Gulbenkian. but a few men were near him. In Gulbenkian, Biographer Lodwick draws on the slightly embittered memories of David Young, for 26 years Gulbenkian's secretary. In Mr Five Per Cent, Biographer Hewins relies on the even-tempered viewpoint of Gulbenkian's only son. Nubar. now 62 and described as a flamboyantly bearded and monocled devotee of fox hunts, orchids and Rolls-Royces. Both books are unevenly written and a shade hero-worshipful. What emerges from each is a curiously fascinating bifocal vision that combines moments of startling intimacy with impersonal middle-distance reporting...
This week Louis H. Burgwald of the U.S. 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...
...years ago Lodwick, on a mission to Pakistan, saw ghee being made, heard that there was a great shortage of it. Since then U.S. dairies have worked on the problem, samples have been sent to Pakistan, endless embassy discussions have been held. Pakistan is willing to pay 42? a delivered pound, a loss to the U.S. of about 28? a pound. Although the U.S.-owned butter is now in cold storage, it may eventually spoil, and the Government will lose the 64? it paid for the average pound. There is no problem in storing ghee. In fact, some tasty Indian...