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...granary-bulging forecast of crop prospects for 1955: the harvest for all crops this year is expected to be 6% above last year's and to equal, if not exceed, the record yield of 1948. Bumper production is anticipated in corn (17% over 1954, and the second-largest crop in history), oats (8% higher than 1954), sorghum grains (up 30%), hay (up 5%), soybeans (up 23%), cotton (30% above the average yield), wheat (5% above the latest forecast) and peanuts (50% above last year...
...corn stalks had rustled only two years before, giant cylindrical storage tanks marched row on row; instead of silos, towering fractionation columns glistened in the sun. The new chemical complex to make dozens of products from natural gas was startling in another way. It is 60% owned by the second-largest U.S. liquor company-National Distillers Products Corp...
...every place in the original Turkish contingent for Korea. At the embarkation point the authorities had to surround the force with barbed wire, not to stop desertions but to keep outsiders from rushing in to join them. Thanks to U.S. military aid. the Turks now have Europe's second-largest standing army (No. 1: Russia): 450,000 soldiers equipped with tanks and jet aircraft to button down the free world's southern flank. A poor nation, Turkey devotes almost 40% of its budget to its defenses, and counts the money well spent, for the nation mortally hates...
...dollarwise businessman, temporarily turned ECA official, looked up from his crop reports and exultantly pointed out some world food facts: wheat fields all over Europe are rich with promise; ECA countries' estimated crop of 30 million metric tons is only 5% under prewar production; the U.S., with the second-largest crop in its history-and some help from Canada-can make up what Europe needs...
...black-mustached General Ivan Bagramian-the onetime Armenian herdsman and train mechanic who first reached the Gulf of Riga last summer-reached the sea again, this time 15 miles north of Memel. The Germans trapped between Memel and Riga began trying to escape from Libau, Latvia's second-largest port, and from the port of Windau farther north, under a hail of fire from Red planes. At night people on Gotland Island, which lies in the Baltic west of Latvia, saw flashes from big naval guns...