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...other ways to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba." Gaining Their Chains. Cuba was obviously feeling the economic squeeze of inept Communist management. Castro last week froze wages, invoked stringent penalties for absenteeism. The $293 million in the treasury when Castro took over has now shrunk to $5,000,000 in foreign exchange. Looking for help, Economic Czar Ernesto (Che) Guevara was dispatched in a hurry to huddle with Soviet Premier Khrushchev...
...this August Among the white silks puffed by wind, The garden music shrunk by the outdoor distances, The nylon tent in which tiny sandwiches are served, Wed imagine the fat man Reflected in those dark mirrors upside down...
Honestus: Well, since the middle 1930s the number of operating farms in the U.S. has declined from nearly 7,000,000 to fewer than 4,000,000, and the farm population has shrunk from 25% of the total population to less than 10%. But a technological revolution has taken place in U.S. agriculture-the combined effect of more and better machinery, more efficient fertilizers, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plant varieties. As a result, productivity-production per worker-has increased much faster on the farms than it has in the factories. Just in the past decade, production per farm...
...Communists also were drubbed. Minor gains in the booming industrial north failed to compensate for defections in the poor agricultural south, cost the Reds about 1% in the total popular vote. The shift was small but significant: it was the first time since 1948 that the Communist percentage had shrunk...
Already this year, the nation's gold supply has shrunk $455 million; it is now down to a 23-year low of $16.4 billion. So persistent are rumors that the U.S. might be forced to devalue the dollar by raising the price of gold that speculators have grabbed up gold shares enthusiastically enough to make them the only group of common stocks to defy the plunge on Wall Street...