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...Administration has its way, the farmers will not have much chance to upset predictions. The Government would set a national acreage allotment for wheat and feed grains that is lower than expected needs, parcel out the allotment to individual farmers on the basis of past acreage, and make up the difference between production and need by drawing from the Government's stores. Wheat farmers would be told not only how much wheat they could grow, but how much they could market. Wheat and grain farmers would continue to get Government price supports so long as they stayed within their...
...West Berlin's French sector. In ones and twos, the families who were in on the plan slipped into the house and gathered in the tiny cellar. There were 28 people, including three children and one half-paralyzed woman of 71. Each was allowed to carry one parcel; a pet dog had to be left behind for fear it would bark and give the plan away. When everything was ready, one man crawled through to see if the coast was clear. At his signal, the others followed; one by one, they crawled over to freedom...
...melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations were swamped: in one shed alone at Euston. 100,000 mailbags waited four days to be picked up. The post office announced that it could not handle parcel post (except for hospitals and military units...
...Protestant the visible symbol of Catholic idolatry, the Roman abandonment of Scripture, of the history of Christ. Divine Maternity and Perpetual Virginity and Immaculate Conception and a glorious Assumption-these are already stones of stumbling. But the end is not yet. It may soon be defined as part and parcel of God's public revelation that in union with her son the Virgin redeemed the world...
...Countway Library of Medicine, which will be a prototype of university medical libraries for the United States, will be built on a parcel of land fronting on Huntington Avenue in Boston. The land is partially occupied by a part of the dormitory for student nurses at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and by a portion of a private way--Shattuck Street. When completed, the Countway Library. These combined collections, in excess of 500,000, will be second in size only to those of the National Library of Medicine in Washington...