Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Republicans have raised political objections to the sale. Senator Goldwater accuses the President of establishing a "Soviet-American mutual aid society," and former vice-President Nixon claims we are "hurting the cause of freedom." Instead, the President's decision will strengthen recent attempts to case world tension. The Russians need grain and the United States has too much; common ground has been found and the opportunity for a further Cold War thaw should not be bypassed...
Despite strong political opposition, President Kennedy has wisely authorized the sale of wheat to the Soviet Union. Reversing the previous ban on grain shipments to the Communist bloc, this sale offers numerous economic advantages...
...harvest; the purchase will eliminate more than one-fifth of our current wheat surplus. It will also case fears of an additional $800 million surplus from this year's promising crop. Furthermore, since the wheat will be sold for hard currency or gold, or on short-term credit, the sale will substantially cut our balance of payments deficit...
...room house in suburban Nyack, N.Y., abounds in memories: a wood carving from Alex Woollcott, a clock from Richard Burton, a salad bowl from John Barrymore. "Bric-a-brac, that's what it all is," says Theatrical First Lady Helen Hayes, 63, who has already put up for sale the house where she spent nearly three decades with Playwright Charles MacArthur. This week the dishes, furniture and memorabilia-more than 1,000 items-will be sold at auction on the front lawn, with proceeds going into a scholarship fund named for Daughter Mary, who died of polio...
...Hawaiian "Missionary" two-center of 1851, which was the highest price ever paid for a single postage stamp at a public auction. Only instance when this price was surpassed was in 1940, when an 1856 British Guiana one-center, brought $45,000 at a private sale...