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...started when the Government decided on this year's quota of grain for export: 570 million bushels, 100 million more than it could readily get. As the Government bought on the open market, prices rose. Many livestock raisers, rather than pay such high prices for feed, sent their animals to market and cashed in on high meat prices. Thus at twelve leading Western markets, hog receipts one day last week totaled 114,800, as compared with 67,987 on the same date a year...
...hundred pints is the quota for the current drive, but since a large number of volunteers fall to show up for their appointments, it will be necessary to sign up at least 300 men before donations actually begin...
Last spring the grain collections from German farmers in the British and U.S. zones were only 32% of quota. The Russians, who know how to exact grain from Soviet collective farms, have used their time-tried techniques much more successfully. At the village of Mildensee, near Dessau, a lad of 16, so small that he looked only ten, told me: "The Russians take 80% of our food." His father interrupted: "No, no, they take only half or a little more...
Another Mildensee farmer said: "If a cow dies, I still have to deliver her quota of milk. We are fined if we do not. Four peasants in this village have been fined-but none have yet been put in jail. If you lack money to pay the fine, then you must pay in animals. In villages near Mildensee some peasants last year were jailed for up to six months for not meeting their grain delivery quotas in full. But we in Mildensee were able to meet our quotas. So they gave us bigger quotas this year. Now we have...
Cocoa is parceled out in the world markets by the International Emergency Food Council. Although the U.S. got its full allocation of 258,000 tons, plus a "dividend" of about 10,000 tons, the quota was still far short of the 350,000 tons that U.S. chocolate manufacturers would like to buy. Contributing to the high price of cocoa were three other factors: competitive bidding for a scarce commodity, hoarding by large manufacturers, and a grave miscalculation by speculators...