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...price supports for that year." Had Mr. Greer's request been heeded, the U.S. would have saved the $1,000,000 paid us, and the economy would have gained a considerable quantity of a cotton of which there is shortage rather than surplus. The Government allows us to plant cotton on approximately one out of every ten acres. We would prefer that the program of Government payments be terminated and have long been on record to that effect. But if this be done, the Government must also terminate its uneconomic and indefensible restriction on production of cotton fibers that...
Mistaken for Grasses. Supported by an $80,000 grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, which was concerned about the possibility that the disease might spread to the U.S., Harpaz finally identified the virus carrier as a tiny plant hopper named Delphacodes striatellus. The insect, he discovered, was not particularly fond of corn, preferring the sap of barley, wheat and oat plants during winter and wild grasses in the summer. But while moving from its winter-to summer-plant hosts, the plant hopper frequently plunged its stylet into young corn seedlings in the mistaken belief that they were wild grasses...
Spraying seedlings with chemicals to control the plant hopper would have been prohibitively costly. Instead, Harpaz turned to the virus itself. Further research revealed that it was extremely sensitive to heat, ceasing all reproductive activity within the plant hopper when the temperature reached 76°F. To Harpaz, this suggested a simple solution: instead of in early April, hybrid corn should not be sown in Israel until late May. Thus when the seedlings emerged early in June, he reasoned, the few viruses left in the plant hoppers' salivary glands would be too sluggish to infect the corn...
...Factory orders advanced by a sharp 4.1% in May in what the Commerce Department called "the first significant improvement since the first of the year." The more cautious-or pessimistic-analysts feel that these forces may do no more than offset such drags on the economy as declining plant-and-equipment spending and inventory liquidation. They figure that the economy has lost too much momentum to rebound strongly any time soon. Many other economists consider that the consumers' renewed appetite could turn things around quite quickly. So far this year, consumers have been paying off old bills and pouring...
Economics Minister Schiller has made frantic efforts to revive plant expansion, but industry, with a quarter of its capacity idle, is fearful. The Bundesbank only reluctantly, and by timid ½% stages, cut its discount rate from 5% to 3%, the lowest in Europe except for Switzerland and Portugal. In the first five months of this year, industrial production slipped 5.3%, consumer goods output 9%, construction 13%. The number of unemployed in February rose fivefold from its 1966 low, to 674,000, or 3.1% of the work force, very high by German standards...