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...seasonal departure," to which the satiric weekly Le Canard Enchaine replied: "A seasonal departure which takes place once every 132 years." The wine harvest, which provides 50% of Algeria's exports, is withering on the vine as farmers leave for France, and one of the best wheat crops in history will barely top last year's drought harvest...
...wartime government service. From 1939 until 1943 Katz worked at Ohio's Wright Field, X-raying airplane parts in the hope of discovering any faults in the castings. Many years later, after moving to Kansas, he devised a way to use similar techniques for searching out insect larvae in wheat grains...
...commendable that straw-hat theatres are investigating the possibilities of off-Broadway drama in real off-Broadway settings, but until they ignore such worthless items as "The Two-Headed Baby" and learn to discriminate wheat from chaff, they will only be doing great disservice to a medium they want to foster...
Since Australia was settled 180 years ago, the mainstay of its economy has always been British purchases of Australian wheat and wool. Now, with Britain dickering for membership in the Common Market and the whole system of Commonwealth tariff preferences threatened with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other agricultural customers. And its eye has lit on Red China, whose own monumental crop failures have forced it to buy grain abroad. During the past two years, with the purchase of $180 million worth of Australian wheat, barley, oats and flour, Red China has become Australia's fourth biggest...
This year Australia has a bumper wheat crop estimated at 300 million bu. ready for harvesting, and is eager to sell more to Peking. The Hong Kong business community is full of reports that the Australians will offer more liberal credit terms to the Chinese Reds in the hope of undercutting the Canadians, who last year sold $120 million worth of grain to Peking...