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...fight for Uruguayan wool in Boston and Uruguayan beef in Chicago," announced President Luis Batlle Berres in Montevideo last week. "I'm going to converse, discuss and fight in a friendly way to defend Uruguayan interests." Thereupon, Batlle Berres and his wife took off for a twelve-day state visit to the U.S., at the special invitation of President Eisenhower. The itinerary was loaded with wreath-layings, state dinners, speeches and sightseeing. But President Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres took his finance minister with him, and some serious talk on economic matters-perhaps even U.S. loans-was clearly expectable...
PERRIN DRAPPIER, beadle of Domremy: "Joan the Maid was a good girl, chaste, simple, and modest, all the years of her youth . . . When I did not ring for complin, Joan used to ask me why and scold me . . . She even promised me a present of wool if I would be regular in ringing...
...school at the age of 14 eventually become a distinguished professor. Thinking back to his early years, Muir recalls: "I disliked school from the start... with its smell of ink, chalk, slate, corduroy, and varnish. The classroom made me feel as if my head were stuffed with hot cotton-wool...
...bales (a year's supply) of cotton, 913,000,000 bushels (a year's crop) of wheat, 657,703,000 bushels (three months' supply) of corn, and hoards of butter, cheese, dried milk, barley, beans, flaxseed, sorghum, oats, rice, rye, soybeans, honey, peanuts, tobacco, wool, winter cover crops, linseed oil, olive oil, tung-nut oil and whey. Except for these market-depressing surpluses, the consumption of U.S. farm products in 1955 would be only 1% less than production. Obviously, the real key to the farm trouble is to find more, better and faster methods of unloading...
...Exports-the sales abroad of meat, wool and grains that once made Argentina one of the world's greatest trading nations -dropped in the last five years to one-half of their previous volume. Reason: Peron's government grabbed control of all exports and crippled farm production in an attempt to squeeze out profits to finance an ill-planned industrialization. ¶Industrialization, too, utterly failed to bring Argentina power, steel, fuel, even such essential equipment as trucks and farm machinery...