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...Announced a 15% increase in 1967 wheat production to meet rising world food needs. Under the Government's price-support program, farmers will be allowed to plant 7.7 million more acres in wheat, and can expect $100 million to $150 million in additional federal payments...
...Gerbils, or sand rats, may make desirable pets, but they are voracious seed and plant eaters. Once they become abundant, they are hard to eradicate, and the damage they do to agriculture is enormous: in countries where they have established colonies, they do heavy damage to wheat, oat and other grain crops. The introduction of gerbils is banned by both the California Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Game, which enforce a joint regulation...
...closer to the Common Market, with a statement that his government "would be ready to enter the European Economic Community provided essential British and Commonwealth interests were safeguarded." His Common Market pronouncements during the election campaign had baldly demanded that British conditions for entry-such as freedom to purchase wheat and sheep from Canada and Australia without import levies-be met before he would consider membership. Then came the little firecracker that almost everyone expected, even though many wondered why it should be lighted...
...fund, which is kept separately; he also maneuvered his forest and public-road expenses from the general budget to the highway trust fund, thereby chopping another $42 million from the budget normally seen by the public. Food for Peace spending was cut $162 million, on the pure hunch that wheat and cotton prices will be lower next year. The President also said that he will reduce farm price supports by $145 million and space research by $300 million-even though in this year's budget those items ranged above estimates by $450 million and $500 million...
...famous rail rate parity case, which had previously enabled Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Baltimore to receive more advantageous rates to and from the Midwest. Recent mergers have not favored Boston, and a dramatic example of railroad trouble occurred this winter when Boston was unable to ship government wheat to India because the two city's grain elevators, both leased by railroad companies, had been closed down. The advantage of railroad proximity to piers (in Boston cargo can be loaded directly onto railway cars) has become less valuable since truck transport now accounts for 80 per cent of the traffic...