Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will spend ten days meeting officials in the capital before splitting up into small groups to visit various American universities. Their trip is sponsored by the U.S. State Department, under the International Educational Exchange Program, and is financed from payments by the Government of India on a 1951 American wheat loan...
...Egypt to curb its intransigence, e.g., Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hussein failed to win release of the more than $40 million in Egyptian assets frozen by the U.S. after Egypt nationalized the Suez. Similarly, the U.S. continued to stall on Egypt's month-old request to buy American surplus wheat with local currency and thus help shore up its sagging economy. Behind the American moves was a common denominator: the conviction that U.S.-Egyptian relations-political and economic-hinge on Colonel Nasser's willingness to help settle Mideast problems within the frame of international...
Some six hours after he had been released on $1,000 bond for joining five Negro ministers in a violation of Georgia's bus-segregation laws (TIME, Jan. 21), the Rev. William Holmes Borders was back in the pulpit of Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church to pay his respects to one of Georgia's outstanding citizens...
...Sliced into the huge stocks of Government-held farm surpluses by negotiating an agreement with Brazil under which 1) the U.S. will sell the Rio government $138,700,000 worth of the surplus, most of it ($111,000,000) in wheat; 2) Brazil will make payment in nondollar currency, i.e., cruzeiros; and 3) the U.S. in turn (under the terms of the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act) will use the currency to finance economic and other development projects in Brazil...
...WHEAT PRICES will rise this year, after recent downtrend. Soil bank is expected to take 15 million acres out of use, help trim 150 million bu. to 200 million bu. off 1956 crop of some 990 million bu., reduce surplus for first time since Korean war. Exports are also up 100% over last year because of loosened Government controls on shipments, U.S. aid to foreign buyers, wheat shortage in Europe...