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...harvests, have been particularly hard hit. Grain elevators in California and the Northwest have been stuffed to overflowing with wheat and other products awaiting shipment. In Washington, 15 million bushels of wheat have been dumped, creating mountains on the ground, and some California growers will soon be forced to plow their crops under. "It's already too late," says Lee Adler, an official of the California Grain and Feed Growers Association. "Our Japanese customers have turned to Australia and South America. Some of them won't ever come back...
Killina Blow. Cliff Island could not afford to lose Seymour, or Ben O'Reilly Jr., who plows the heavy winter snows, or Bunk MacVane, Bub Anderson and Bruce Dyer, lobstermen all. Four hundred winter people lived on the island 70 years ago, but residents have been moving to the mainland and its more varied jobs for years. An exodus of the remaining young families would be the killing blow. The post office, the general store, the snow plow and even the daily ferry would stop. The island, still populated by descendants of its 17th century settlers, would become...
...Yangtze. American businessmen may now sell to China a wide variety of goods. If the Chinese have the cash-and inclination-they will be able to plow their fields with American farm tractors, use U.S.-made fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides and even import American livestock for breeding purposes. They can equip their offices with U.S.-made desks, typewriters, check writers, telephones and simple calculators, outfit their factories with American forklift vehicles and a wide assortment of U.S. machinery...
...hopes for a coup in the Far West are still alive. The Alaska legislature passed a bill approving a presidential primary for the last week of February. That would beat New Hampshire, previously the nation's first, by two weeks-and add immeasurably to the snows politicians must plow through on the road to the nomination...
...dons heavy green coveralls against the morning chill and tends to the barn chores before the cock crows. After breakfast at 6, he clambers into the enclosed cab of his 100-horsepower, red-and-white Farmall tractor and chugs into the field he will plow that day. Dinner at noon, supper at 6, then back into the fields to work by the light of his tractor's headlights until...