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...Great Plains were plowed and sown to wheat to feed Europe in World War I, and their surpluses have made political trouble almost ever since. To feed Britain this time, the Department of Agriculture has a tougher but more constructive job. As tactfully as it can, it must discourage U. S. farmers from raising such inevitable surplus crops as wheat, corn, tobacco, cotton. It must encourage dairy, fruit and vegetable crops, which have always been side shows for U. S. agriculture. But not only do the British need these crops, the U. S. also needs more of them...
...seeds of trouble were sown back in 1933 when a brash, swarthy sergeant named Fulgencio Batista and several fellow sergeants ousted the corrupt officers' clique that controlled the Government and made themselves overlords of the shark-shaped island. Batista became boss. He promoted himself to Commander in Chief of the Army and pinned a colonel's epaulets on his shoulders. To Sergeant Jose Pedraza he gave the national police, and Sergeant Angel Gonzalez got the Navy. When he offered Sergeant Pedraza the rank of major, that worthy replied: "Don't bother. I've already made myself...
...France. The Indo-Chinese were willing to be liberated. The French were at last reaping the harvest of the particular brand of civilization they had sown in Indo-China. By exploiting 23,000,000 natives, 28,000 Frenchmen had arranged for themselves an attractive existence, including the extraction of a tidy income from 10,000 tons of opium sold annually to the population under Government license. They had built European towns with broad, immaculate avenues, spacious buildings, beautiful squares adorned with statues of the French great. Beyond the exclusive French quarter, in utmost squalor and poverty, lived the native population...
Also estimated last week was the winter wheat crop, already nearly harvested: 523,990,000 bushels. This was 35,000,000 bushels more than the official winter wheat estimate of a month ago. In Kansas, No. 1 wheat State, 1940 wheat was called the miracle crop; sown during a drought, all but given up for lost, it turned out to be nearly twice as big as the trade anticipated last December. Wheatmen recalled their adage, "Never bury the Kansas wheat crop until it is dead." By last week's end wheat car sidings in greater Kansas City were filling...
...shaken Britain's faith in her leaders, had probably increased isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by making U. S. citizens believe that Britain's cause was hopeless. It was Hitler's old familiar technique of waging war with words. With rumors, fear, suspicion diabolically sown, he had again set out to demoralize his enemy before the cannon spoke...