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Will this solve the surplus problem? Benson doubted it. Markets have shrunk, and surpluses are so mountainous that it will take more than a 4% acreage cut to reduce them. The Government holds more than 6,000,000 bales ($1.1 billion worth) of cotton bought in support of prices at 90% of parity, will probably have to take over another 2,000,000 bales of last year's crop on which it has already made loans. Special restrictions on resale of this cotton virtually price it out of the domestic market, which in any case has not grown nearly...
...atomic bomb? It took a B-29 to carry the first one, dropped on Hiroshima, which may have weighed more than 10,000 Ibs. The Army's announcement last week that it will abandon its monstrous, 11-in. atomic cannon tells how much the bombs have shrunk. The new atomic shells will fit an 8-in. gun. Since they will have to withstand the shock of firing, they will be much like ordinary 8-in. shells. They will have an internal cavity about 22 in. long and about 5½ in. in diameter in the center. This is apparently...
...poundage down from 210 to 185, his waistline shrunk from 44 in. to a svelte 37, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, 47, thriving on a low-caloric diet to speed his recovery from his heart attack of early July, waved a happy farewell to congressional cares at Washington's National Airport. Then he and his wife Lady Bird flew away home to Texas, where Johnson will loll around a few months in home-town Johnson City...
...More Sitting Around. By last December, Peter was a new man. His waistline had shrunk to a svelte 42 inches; his weight had melted to 259 lbs. After a physical, Peter got the idea that he had final clearance, but when the bandmaster told him to keep on dieting he gave up. By June he was back to a carefree...
...Middle Ages and the Renaissance. "The partial loss of ancient learning and its recovery at the Renaissance were for him both unique events . . . But we have lived to see the second death of ancient learning. In our time something which was once the possession of all educated men has shrunk to being the technical accomplishment of a few specialists . . . "To Gibbon the literary change from Virgil to Beowulf . . . would have seemed greater than it can to us. We can now see quite clearly that these barbarian poems were not really a novelty comparable to, say. The Waste Land...