Word: wheat
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Sirs: ARTICLE On WESTERN DROUGHT COMPREHENSIVE [TIME, May 21]. SINCE PUBLISHED DAMAGE DOUBLED AMERICA'S YEARLY WHEAT CONSUMPTION FOR FOOD SIX HUNDRED MILLION FOR SEED SIXTY MILLION FOR EXPORTS FORTY MILLION FOR RESERVE TWO HUNDRED MILLION TOTAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENT AT LEAST NINE HUNDRED MILLIONS STOP PRESENT SURPLUS EXAGGERATED LARGELY IMAGINARY SITUATION SERIOUS...
...industries such as iron and coal is wholly commendable but undoubtedly the difficulties which have arisen from the collective bargaining clause have caused deviations from the intended course. The wrong ideas which were incorporated in haste now stand out more clearly. Honest constructive criticism which will separate the wheat from the chaff is needed to set the NRA buck on its course. No thoughtless and prejudiced bombardment can help...
...Austria's Dollfuss and Hungary's Gömbbs had named to draw up an economic agreement to implement their Three Power Pact (TIME, March 26). Last week the experts had something to show. Austria and Italy had agreed to buy most of Hungary's surplus wheat at a fixed minimum price of 92.6? a bu.; Hungary and Italy, to buy Austria's lumber and wood-pulp; Austria and Hungary to lower tariffs 10% on any goods that pass through Italy's ports of Fiume and Trieste; Hungary to give Austria and Italy big tariff...
...hypothetical line of march of the next Russo-Japanese War. Six years ago Soviet Russia marked it as Jewish, moved in several thousand Jews from Western Russia, Lithuania, the U. S., Argentina and Palestine. Many of them moved right out again. The soil was rich; the crops of wheat and oats were heavy; iron, coal, graphite, marble and gold lay in the hills; the rivers ran with salmon and the forests with game. The neighbors, Russians and a few Koreans, were friendly. The Government ran a cannery, was building a Jewish theatre and new schools. But the Japanese were near...
...they appeared none too eager last week to crimp their own exports. In Australia the Melbourne Argus (which last week won a University of Missouri School of Journalism honor medal, see p. 22) put it bluntly: "Australia has no complaint against Japan who is a good customer for her wheat and wool. Australia, as is natural from her geographical position, has found good markets in the Far East and unless international rivalries are pursued to the point of national suicide that trade must not be discouraged. The poor people of both England and Australia do not wel come a policy...