Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia and Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia agreed last week to resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
Under "total acreage allotment," a farmer receiving supports for major crops (wheat, cotton, corn, peanuts, tobacco) had to restrict his total planted acreage to a Government quota and could not plant his excess land to anything but hay and pasturage. Now he can plant it to anything he pleases, except the major crops, potatoes and a small list of commercial vegetables. Benson expected that most of the decontrolled acreage would be planted to feed grains and forage crops, which farmers badly need, especially in areas hit by drought and heat...
...support price for 1955 wheat will be 82½% of parity (the minimum provided by law). This will mean $2.06 per bushel, as against the $2.24 that farmers are now getting under 90% support...
...crops, 400 million bushels of wheat and 1,000,000 bales of cotton will be set aside (i.e., bought and stored by the Government) for stockpiling and foreign relief...
...Cezanne and Degas have long been the bestsellers. Van Gogh's popularity is based on relatively few pictures -the more decorative and least emo tional of his canvases. His View at La Craii, also known as Vegetable Garden (opposite), is a consistent favorite, and calm as Cream of Wheat. Edging the leaders in popularity are Picasso and Cubist Georges Braque. The still lifes which Braque specializes in are nothing if not decorative, and their complexity helps offset the chill nakedness of many modern interiors...