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Wickard hopes his appeal to the farmers' patriotism may cut wheat planting by 15,000,000 acres. But the profit motive is working hard against him. The farm bloc has fixed the crop-loan law so that farmers can unload their wheat on the Government at $1.14 a bushel v. 98? last year and 65? the year before...
...last week starving Greece had a glimmer of good news. Germany and Italy would allow the Red Cross to supervise distribution of 14,000 tons of wheat and flour which had already been received from Haifa and other ports. Underfed Greek stevedores who are to unload the cargoes are so weak that they will be allowed twice as long as usual to empty the ships. Germany and Italy also agreed that 500 tons of Turkish food could be sent to Greece...
...Henry Hudson Parkway. Its broad playing fields and ivied brick buildings, countrified by fieldstone fireplaces, are shaded by well-kept maples and oaks, bordered by neat shrubbery. At 9 each morning six big school busses and more than a dozen station wagons and cars roll up, unload well-scrubbed tots and adolescents from Bronxville, Yonkers, Tuckahoe, Riverdale, The Bronx, Manhattan. At 5 each afternoon, they roll home again...
Last week, less than four months after the U.S. entered World War II, the railroads had again to embargo most export freight moving to seaboard. The congestion in the ports had reached a point where in some places it was necessary to unload goods into open fields in order to empty freight cars...
Because of these bottlenecks, truckers cannot load their trucks to capacity, or must unload from one large vehicle to several smaller ones. Goods for Army & Navy as well as for defense factories are held up for hours-hours that are just as perilously lost at the beginning of the trek as in the last ten miles behind the battle line. Some hair-raising case histories...