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Died. Dr. David Fairchild, 85, agricultural explorer who was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 species of plants to the U.S. (including the soybean, papaya, avocado), in 1905 planted Washington's first Japanese cherry trees; of a heart ailment; in Coconut Grove...
Should the U.S. sell butter to Russia? The question was touched off by Soybean Processor Dwayne Andreas of Mankato, Minn., when he asked the U.S. Commerce Department last week for permission to sell Russia 40 million lbs. of surplus butter and 14 million lbs. of surplus cottonseed oil (used to make margarine). The result was a searching re-examination by the President's Cabinet of U.S. policy on East-West trade...
Edible fats and oils will be in record supply in 1954, but not necessarily cheaper. Though a total 10.4 billion Ibs. (100 million above 1953) of such vegetable oils as soybean and cottonseed (both used in margarine and shortening) is forecast, Government price props will probably keep prices buoyed...
...have her hair shampooed free-half with a P. & G. product, the other half with a competing shampoo. The company keeps a staff of bakers busy developing new recipes for Crisco and its bakery-trade shortenings (latest treat: a chocolate-coated ice-cream cone), is now working with soybean oil in the hope of cashing in on the boom in "frozen custard" and other ice-cream substitutes...
...regions I covered. Many who voted for Stevenson told me that they were glad Ike was in, and that Stevenson would have been a mistake. I would hesitate to say that all Republicans enjoy the same popularity. From Ohio to Wyoming, straight across the farm belt, among corn, hogs, soybean, alfalfa, wheat, beet and cattle men, I heard Ike praised, and the men around Ike, as well as the Republican Party itself, blamed for going back on promises to the farmers. Farmers and ranchers everywhere told me that Ike had made specific promises in his campaign speeches to them that...