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...than serious Government proposal." Mrs. Braden admits to being somewhat vague about her duties ("I've only been here since Friday," she said last week, after her first days on the job). Most probably, she will attempt to apply her clear-as-mud mandate to such matters as wheat sales, export taxes and passports. But even some State Department officials concede that in their domain consumer concerns are abstract at best and entrenched bureaucrats will probably resist consumerist encroachments on their powers...
...place like it on earth-the fertile soil, the good growing climate, a topography well suited to mechanical operation, and farmers with the skills and capital to make the most of their opportunity. In the decades ahead, this area and its people -with its rich crops of wheat, corn and soybeans-just may be civilization's most valuable resource, more valuable even than oil and forests and minerals In Earl Butz's little study, which has a horse collar, a buffalo skull and other rustic memorabilia on the wall, the Secretary can almost smell the rising power...
...When I come calling with wheat in my pocket, they pay attention...
...footage dating back to WW II is integrated into the film, and with it, Deitch shows us that women, when needed, are capable of doing anything men can do. We see women in long skirts and heels learning to fly, driving Red Cross trucks, working in ammunitions factories, harvesting wheat...Similar footage is used from WW II. But the post-war eras severely cut back on the opportunities so briefly open to women...
...what Egypt had received last year -evidently a reward for Sadat's willingness to come to an agreement with Israel on the Sinai last August. Over and above the aid, which must wait for congressional approval, the U.S. agreed to sell Egypt $98.1 million worth of much-needed wheat under favorable terms...