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...snooty waitress in a restaurant. "You say one word," Nicholson warned the waitress, "and I'll kick in your pastry cart." Eastman remembered the scene and adapted it years later in her Five Easy Pieces screenplay, in which Nicholson throws a famous fit over an order of wheat toast...
...most baleful weather in a generation is raising the specter of economic disaster for Midwest farmers and the businessmen who depend on them. The big drought is daily diminishing what had been estimated would be a bumper yield of corn, soybeans and other feed grains. Crops of spring wheat, oats and barley are also being reduced...
...weather is also punishing Illinois, where the soybean crop will probably fall 20% below earlier expectations. Farmers in Oklahoma are getting only three cuttings of hay instead of five, and the spring-wheat yield in North Dakota is expected to be sharply reduced. The Governors of Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota have declared their states disaster areas. At the Midwest Governors Conference last week in Minneapolis, a resolution was adopted urging the Administration to expand farm disaster relief and increase crop price-support programs, which only last year were reduced in order to boost production...
...clenched fists out the windows of railroad cars headed for the front. We then see them scurrying like scared rabbits through the din and smoke of the battlefield, advancing in spite of their terror. We are witness to heaps of mutilated bodies lying in fields where, a year earlier, wheat was almost ready for harvest...
...chance that retail food prices will drop has been dimmed further in the past few weeks. The price of wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade has risen from $3.56 per bu. a month ago to $4.36 last week-still below the record $6.45 last February. One reason: farmers have been holding crops back from the market. The price of live cattle has risen from $37 per 100 lbs. two weeks ago to $44.57 last week, and hogs in the last month have gone from $25 to $38.57 -still below their peaks last August. In response to farm-belt complaints...