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...last election, the Conservatives elected 42 members from the Prairie Provinces. The $72 million wheat subsidy which Diefenbaker granted to western farmers 15 days before the election accounted for much of this support. Now this crutch is gone, and it is likely that western support will decline. Greatest dissatisfaction with Diefenbaker's regime has come from the discontented electorate in central Canada, urban voters who solidly backed the Liberals in the election last June. Diefenbaker's obvious last-ditch attempt to win the urban vote by promising urban development and redevelopment assistance will likely go unanswered. Social Credit leader Robert...
Goulart's economic planners have initiated three programs to curb inflation: they first ended government subsidies on oil and wheat; second strictly out back the hiring of governmental employees to reduce bureaucratic waste; and third, announced a three-year program for economic growth which will work with the Alliance for Progress...
...director, the University is "still in the process of looking the plans over," and "trying to iron out difficulties with the local CD authorities." If the College does sign the papers, the government will mark certain designated areas as public shelters, and proceed to stock them with bulgar crushed wheat) biscuits and other supplies at the cost or about $4 per person. Thus the government expense to provide shelter for the University alone will be $86, dollars. (In addition to the minimal two-week supply of food, medical, and sanitary supplies, the University may wish to add a few other...
...referendum Freeman needs a two-thirds yes vote among wheat farmers. His program is still opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, biggest of all U.S. agricultural organizations. But Freeman is likely to get his way: after all, while many American farmers talk a good game against Government controls, that double-your-money argument should be pretty persuasive...
...post offices and courthouses during the Depression days of the Federal Art Project? Some became bums, some are dead, some are doing toothpaste ads. Some, like Philip Evergood, became successful representational artists. And some, escaping from the chunky nude moms and arm-and-hammer mill workers, the wheat stacks and cogwheels of federal wall paintings, have turned into top-rank abstract expressionists. Next week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art opens a show by one of them: 64 oils, gouaches and watercolors by James Brooks that make his old murals look, by comparison, like pages from the "F.D.R...