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...Credit Corp. has sold through bids the last of a million bales of lower-grade cotton under a special program announced last year. Bids far below the world market price are refused. The CCC will follow the same sales technique with the 7,000,000 bales of more desirable upland cotton; later it may also dispose of another 6,900,000 bales held against loans. Cotton exports, 2,750,000 bales this year, will be upped gradually to a hoped-for 5,000,000 bales a year as the U.S., whose share of the postwar export cotton trade has slumped...
...contraries can be true, but in the reality of life as one lives it they are inseparable. I have occasionally described my standpoint to my friends as the 'narrow ridge.' I wanted by this to express that I did not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolute, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs, where there is [only] the certainty of meeting what remains undisclosed...
Like many race myths, the legend of Arjuna clothes a simple economic fact: in the upland valleys, existence depends upon a limited number of tiny terraced fields and the careful balancing of population against food reserves. Each family avoids dividing its meager tillage in ever-diminishing lots among its progeny by having the younger sons share the wife of the eldest son. Not only does this practice reduce the number of children in each generation, and keep each property permanently within the family, but it has some other curious results. Polyandry, for some reason not wholly accounted for by anthropologists...
...typical grower at last week's dedication was Paul R. Daggs, a spare, twinkling-eyed man who lives in Upland, Calif, and has 25 acres of lemons and oranges a few miles outside town. After Daggs sprays, irrigates and fertilizes his fruits, the co-op will pick, sort, grade and market about 16,000 boxes of oranges and lemons for him. They should bring approximately $150,000 on the market and, after all expenses, leave Daggs with a $15,000 profit for his year's work. Daggs sometimes complains about the heavy pyramid over his head...
...rain had fallen, with a recorded peak of 21 inches at Hita, Oita Prefecture. The toll: 457 known dead, 1,114 missing, 901 injured; some 800,000 homeless; 4,000 homes destroyed or washed away, 300,000 homes damaged or flooded, 350,000 acres of rich paddy and upland fields ruined and gone. The cost: $50 million to $100 million. For Kyushu, where it rains twice as much as it does elsewhere in Japan, it was the worst flood catastrophe in 61 years...