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...unions could well revise their work rules. His Plumbers and Pipefitters require two pipefitters and a welder to hook up the piping on a steam trap about the size of a breadbox. If American farmers worked the same way, there would be 20 men on a combine and wheat would be $10 a bushel...
...Party has created a new title, "Hero of Threshing," which will be awarded for outstanding performance. Riding atop their huge Niva combines, Soviet farmers last week were rushing to harvest the grain crop, and from the Ukraine to Siberia, extra trucks were being pressed into service to speed the wheat, corn, rye and barley to storage areas before fall rains cause spoilage. Despite the frantic efforts, the Soviet harvest is expected to fall at least 25 to 30 million tons short of this year's goal of 215 million tons-forcing the U.S.S.R. into foreign purchases that are jarring...
...growing seasons short; frost hits large tracts in Siberia in early September. According to Soviet farm authorities, favorable weather conditions prevail about once every four years. This year there were two damaging developments. A freakishly warm winter failed to provide the essential protective coat of snow for the winter wheat, hurting the crop. Then, just as the spring plantings of corn and wheat were sprouting, a hot June parched the shoots, stunting the yield...
...advance. But if Moscow remains reluctant to play by the rules, the U.S. will be forced, just as Butz has now done, to make special ones. There is increasing sentiment in Congress that those rules should include the establishment of a licensing agency along the lines of the Canadian Wheat Board, which would review Soviet and other foreign applications before allowing the traders to approach American grain salesmen...
...Constantine to spend the hours of 7:30 to 10 p.m. as her dinner companion and to act as her gentleman-escort at social functions. Constantine seems not to have bridled. His father, Peter John, headed an import-export firm dealing in textiles from Manchester and Liverpool, cotton and wheat from Egypt. Peter John was a prodigal spender, and at his death the family finances were in precarious shape. Constantino's elder brothers bankrupted the firm...