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Discusses the trade of the U.S. with communist countries as of October 1963. Value of the Canadian wheat transaction; U.S. restrictions which is the reason for the tiny volume of trade between this country and the Soviet bloc; Advantages of bloc trading. INSET: Wheat for the Russians..

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. Negotiations to reduce U.S. and Soviet troop deployments in Europe have been complicated by concurrent summits regarding security and arms reduction. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has rejected George McMurtrie Godley, a nominee for assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs. The U.S. General Accounting Office investigated a deal to export U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union.

The article reports and comments on current events in the news during the week of September 30, 1972. A number of items are covered including the sale of American wheat to the Soviet Union, dissatisfaction with unleaded gasoline and the need for funding transportation measures for mass transit.

Focuses on the announcement of the Farm Board of the U.S. that it would not make stabilization purchases from the 1931 wheat crop. Impact of the announcement upon the farmers; Involvement of Alexander Legge, member of the Farm Board, in the stabilization purchases; Discussion of the stabilization-corporation device and the co-operative marketing morsel; Attempt of the Board to evade the farm-relief program; Debate on the farm-relief program in the U.S. Congress.

Focuses on political and economic events in the U.S. Reasons for hostility of the American government against the Soviet Union; Statement made by U.S. Secretary of State, Arthur M. Hyde that the Soviet government through the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, has been selling wheat short on the Chicago market; Comments on the plight of American farmers; Information on a new policy of the Soviet Union; Trading of wheat in the world market below the cost of production; Comment on the end of civil war in China; Description of a case of Guido Serio, an Italian Communist now resident in the U.S.

Analyzes the ways in which wheat is marketed in Canada. Statistics on Canada's share in the world's exportable surplus; Reasoning of grain growers that speculation and manipulation regarding grains had more to do with market fluctuations than had supply and demand; Information on grain-commission merchants; Information on the creation of Canada Wheat Board, which had the monopoly of Canada's wheat and operated to the entire exclusion of the option or future market; Information on the physical organization of the Wheat Pool.

Comments on the political and socio-economic issues concerning the Central Europe. Details on the damage caused by the autarchy experiments of the Germans in the global economy; Elimination of the clauses of the peace treaties that provided for cooperation on a basis of preferential tariffs among Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary; Influence of the strongest bourgeois party in the Austrian Parliament on the creation of the agricultural self-sufficiency movement; Impact of the rise of the inflation rate on the prices of various wheat products in Hungary.

Focuses on the political situation in Canada. Efforts made by Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King to promote the economic recovery of Europe and to restore Canada's best market; Information on increased taxation at the end of the fiscal year; Report that Conservative party leader Arthur Meighen, is admittedly the ablest and most experienced figure in Canadian public life; Information that export trade figures are artificially buoyed up by the high price of wheat and the demand of American paper for Canadian newsprint and pulpwood.

Presents information on the stabilization of wheat prices in the U.S. Information on the crop situation on the American, Europe and India; Probability that a price of $1.25 in the Chicago market and a corresponding price of more than a dollar on the farm would relieve the situation; Effect of stabilization of wheat prices in the Chicago market on the American consumers; View of the U.S. President and congressmen on the demand of a plan for the stabilization of wheat prices; Discussion of an experimental plan designed for the stabilization of wheat prices in the Chicago market; Impact of stabilization of wheat prices in the Chicago market on the American farmers income; Need of some competent organization to make the experiment a success at the lowest cost; Comment of Henry Ford, U.S. automobile manufacturer on the experimental plan designed for the stabilization of wheat prices in the Chicago market; View that the task of stabilizing the price of American wheat at $1.25 is no more formidable than seemed the task of maintaining a five-dollar wage scale.

Presents information regarding the situation of food security in Germany. Analysis of the significance of a picture of loaf in the office of the German Food Minister; shortfall in the production of wheat and rye crops in Germany; Argument that potatoes which are relatively plentiful, may offset in a measure the wheat and rye shortage; Description regarding the grain quotas which are specified quantities of wheat, rye, barley or oats which producers are obliged by law to turn over to the government for the fulfillment of the bread ration; Information that the loaf itself, its composition and the sharing of its slices, are at all events among the most dramatic features of German life.

Focuses on the grievance of farmers in the united states due to their economic position. Possibility that the position of farmers has been a result of the post-war depression in the country; Pressure of paying the wages of hired labor from the amount earned by farmers; Earning of farmer families being less than average individual worker in industry, transportation or mining; Suggestions for farmers either to have a fair return on the property bought and slaved by them to improve and clear of mortgage or have wages; Estimates to show that no falling in production is needed to extend the dominion of hunger; Possibility that the capitalists will never accept such terms; Projections for wheat production which will be sufficient for one year food supply reserve.

Reports that high profits, government price supports and numerous distributive charges will maintain food prices despite bumper crops across the world. Damage caused to the potato crops and vines, by the storm in the current year; Increase in the wheat supply in India and China; Observation that in the major deficit countries the home-consumed rice supply will be greater and fewer people will die of starvation; Impact of the increased corn crop on the supply of pork; Discussion on the U.S. government support programs.

Focuses on steps taken by the U.S. and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) to deal with the world food crisis after the World War II. Announcement of the reduced rate of flour production and bonus prices to farmers for wheat and corn; Reduction in consumption of wheat by the American families; Role of a famine in worsening the food shortage in India and China; Help provided by UNRRA and Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to areas of serious food shortage; Efforts of UNRRA to help areas of food shortage in Europe; Major exporters of wheat to famine-stricken areas; Reduction in shipments of grain from Argentina due to transportation problems; Efforts of UNRRA to deal with crisis of oils and fats.

Focuses on some of the socio-political updates related to the U.S. Information on a Conference of progressive Governors, members of the House of Representatives and economists to formulate a sound legislative program for the next session of the U.S. Congress that has great significance; Opposition on the entry of government into business; Report on the general disarmament conference of 1932 under the auspices of the League of Nations; Removal of federal judges from the office as they refused to endorse dictator Rafael Trujillo's acts; Distinction between the action of the U.S. and the Soviet union on the selling of wheat on world markets; Failure of housing to provide modern standards within the reach of the lower income classes.

Focuses on the idea proposed by engineer Thomas D. Campbell regarding mass production in farming by the extensive use of power machinery. Information about the Campbell Farming Corp.; Report that Campbell has developed the winnow method of harvesting wheat; Claim that Campbell system definitely separates the farming business from the farm house; Importance of management in agriculture.

Focuses on the effect of the emergency tariff bill of the government of United States President Warren G. Harding on trade with Canada. Duties on products such as wheat, butter, cheese and fresh meat that will affect Canada more than any other country; Designation of Canada and the United States as exporters to a common market; Argument that the duty on Canadian wheat is not likely to raise domestic prices so long as the United States remains a wheat exporting nation; Nature of the economic and political relations between the United States and Canada.

Explores the consequences of government agricultural subsidy through price guaranty of the wheat produced by farmers after World War I in the U.S. Liability of the government to buy every bushel harvested which was done in anticipation of continued war; Assertion that the policy, aside from costing the government a lot of money will in the end injure even the wheat growers; Impossibility of exporting the wheat and the crucial problem of storage; Claim that a policy of non-guaranty might have been wiser; Need to keep the pledge of buying the wheat and distribute the burden among those capable of bearing it.

Analyses the factors that have resulted in the prevalence of food problem in France. Decline in the production of wheat in France since 1914 that led to the food problem in the country; Insight into the causes behind decline in the production of wheat in France; Reversal in various aspects of policy of France towards distribution and consumption of wheat; Uncertainty associated with the meat production and consumption in France.

Discusses the actions taken by the Food Administration in order to feed the allied world on rations. Prohibition of contracts for the sale of flour; Elimination of all the ordinary means by which bulk of the grain trade is financed; Limitation of the right to store wheat and flour to thirty days.

Focuses on the annual rate of domestic consumption of wheat in the U.S. Impact of bad weather conditions on the crop; Effect of high feed costs on meat prices; Amount of decline in beef production; Cost-price problems of hog feeders and cattlemen; Projected production of wheat crop in 1974; Price of wheat per bushel.

Focuses on the current defense policy of the U.S. with reference to foreign relations with Brazil. Announcement made by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt that the country has no intention of maintaining a two-ocean fleet; Information on the report of army's chief of staff, Malin Craig on the administration's preparedness plans; Need for anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns and listening equipment by the Army; Constrained foreign relations of the U.S. with Argentina due to Department of Agriculture's wheat-dumping program; Export of chincona trees from the U.S. to Brazil.

The article focuses on the shortage of wheat in Germany. It has cited that country badly needs a foreign loan to finance the importation of wheat products. The move of the government in purchasing food abroad has alarmed its political leaders. Leaders stressed its concern that the reduction of grain stocks would be a strain to find the necessary foreign exchange.

Focuses on the social and economic condition of Montana. Details of the natural beauty of Montana; Information on the failure of crops in Montana due to natural disaster; Condition of the people in Montana; Increase in the prices of various goods; Relief of 30 dollars given to a family of five members by the U.S. government; Lack of availability of wheat to the people of Montana.

Presents information on the abolishment of the ten-percent cut of wheat acreage specified in contracts for spring planting. Effect of higher prices, both in reducing demand and in enlarging output outside the area of control; Need for lower industrial prices, combined with much larger production of industry's goods; Discussion on the policy of crop restriction; Report on benefit payments that covered a few major crops; Rise in the cost of dairymen and poultry raisers through higher prices of feed.

Focuses on likely failure of the wheat crop in the Soviet Union that will compel the country to import the crop. Prime cause behind the situation in which the Soviet Union finds herself in; Efforts on the Soviet government in view of seed requirement following the destruction of the land by ice melt and rodent attack; Argument over the capability of the Soviet Union in importing the seeds required for wheat production; Possible use of stocks of gold and foreign currencies by the Soviet government in exchange of wheat import.

Focuses on the rise of prices of wheat and corn in the U.S. Impact of the rise on the prospects of presidential candidate and Senator Robert La Follette; Increase in exchange quotations of wheat for future; Information that rise of wheat is due to a report of increase in probable American supply and probable foreign demand; Estimation made in a report last year that importing nations will need 125 million more bushels this year than last; Lack of accurate statistical information in the report; Unreliability and shifting character of estimates; Probability that the Europe with its low purchasing power will tend to gain imports from other countries at cheaper rates; Increase in the price of corn and hogs, to the poor condition of the crop and the fear that on account of its lateness much of it may be ruined by early frosts; Gain in this year's American wheat crop, estimated by the Department of Agriculture.

Focuses on the efforts to reduce the consumption of molasses in the manufacturing of alcohol in the U.S. Claim that alcohol can also be made from grain-corn and wheat; Suggestion to utilize all high-proof grain distilleries to capacity for alcohol production; Proposal that the best way to use the low-proof distilleries is to produce 140-proof grain alcohols in them and then to transport this alcohol to the high-proof distilleries.

Focuses on the decision of the Price Decontrol Board to reduce prices of meat, shortenings and vegetable oils in the U.S. Refusal by the Board to restore price ceilings on dairy products and wheat; Steps to be taken by the Office of Price Administration under the Price Control Act, to achieve price stabilization; Statement that Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson has the power to end price control on any agricultural product which is not in short supply, and can order prices raised whenever he thinks a boost is necessary to stimulate production.

Focuses on the low price of agricultural products particularly wheat crop in Kansas. Rate of decrease in price; Impact of President Herbert Clark Hoover's moratorium to rescue German finance with agriculture; Agreement between exporting nations regarding wheat.

Discusses the political effect of the moratorium on U.S. President Herbert Hoover. Rearrangement and readjustment of the pre-convention campaign plans of the opposition; View moratorium for debts and reparations as the biggest thing that has occurred since the War; Improvement in business conditions before the election; Ratification of the debt proposal by the U.S. Congress; Refusal of the Farm Board to pledge itself not to sell any wheat until the price has risen.

Focuses on the consequence of the great increase in the supply of wheat without a parallel increase in its demand. Recognition of wheat as a commodity with an international market; Details on the shipping difficulties and transportation of Argentinian and Australian wheat; Total wheat offered on the export market.

Focuses on political developments all round the world. Comments on the signing of Kellogg treaty; Comments on relations of Mexico with the U.S.; Information about the dispute between Liberia and the Finance Corp.; Claims that foreign loans are still being sent into Germany in large enough amounts to offset the increased payments from Germany; Report on crop of wheat in the U.S.; Report that the reserves of the Reserve Banks are comparatively small in relation to the total volume of credit, and therefore small changes in their liquidity are important.

Comments on the dispute between the U.S. Congress and President Woodrow Wilson over the legislative bill that imposed fixed price on wheat. Efforts of the Republicans to use the discontent expressed by farmers to reduce Wilson's support; Problem over undue profits gained by middlemen in the distribution of farm produce; Result of worsening land-tenure situation; Assertion on the inadequacy of the federal farm loan system; Failure of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to address the complaints of the farmers; Importance of food supply on the economic condition of the country; Proposal of forming an investigating commission on agricultural reconstruction.

Focuses on the control of the food supply in the New York market. Statement of the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture regarding the food supply; Claims that individual farmers cannot be forced to give up their supplies until they and their families have satisfied their normal appetites in Germany and Belgium; Report that the federal government should make it possible for all non-agricultural communities to do what private wealth has done in New York; Failure of the wheat crops of Australia and Argentina.

Focuses on various socio-political developments in the U.S. Analysis of the economy deficit this year under President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration; Information on U.S. statesman Nelson Rockefeller's visit to Moscow; Use of unevaluated government loyalty files in the selection of scholars for Fulbright Foreign Scholarship; Response to the latest bill to prop the price of wheat.

Focuses on political developments in the U.S. Response of Democrats to the latest bill to prop the price of wheat; Information on the consumer revolt against this bill; Stand taken by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the bill.

Comments on several political issues in the U.S. as of 1963. Defeat of Richard Nixon for the governorship of California; Republican attitude on the sale of wheat to Moscow; Ability of President John F. Kennedy to persuade people.

Presents a commentary on several political issues concerning the U.S. and Canada, as of August 1963. Scenery that was seen from travel on the Trans-Canada Highway from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to Vancouver, British Columbia; Deal between Canada and China regarding wheat; Criticism on the legislative inefficiency of U.S. legislative bodies.

Presents information on political and economic issues in the U.S. Assessment of the popularity of U.S. President Richard Nixon; Discussion of the Soviet Union wheat deal; Reference to a letter from William A. Powell, president of Mid-American Dairymen; Appraisal of the system of campaign contributions; Assessment of policies and promises of Nixon.

Focuses on human rights that have prevailed over property rights. Discussion on the case Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co., in which the Supreme Court struck an epochal blow for liberty; Report on the annoyance of the National Biscuit Co., when it found out that the Kellogg Co., was making shredded wheat; View "pillow shape" as part of the "good will" which went with the business; Objection to the justice on the ground that the Kellogg Co. is fraudulently seeking to appropriate to itself the benefits of a goodwill built up at great cost.

Presents the poem "Men and Wheat," by Ridgely Torrence.

Focuses on strategies of Germany during the World War II. Account of German casualties during last winter's retreat in the Soviet Union; Promise made by Germany to send grain to Finland to solve its problem of desperate food shortage; Declaration of L'Action Française regarding the conduct of officials to sabotage collaboration with Germany.

Comments on the improvement of farmer's condition in South Carolina. Provision of federal funds for both farming and industrial and social objectives; Increase in feed and food crops has been a definite gain to the state and its farmers; Aggravation of the wheat surplus; Raise in natural income to the farmer, an expansion of bread ration; Adaptation of the soil-conservation program as a scheme to continue to make payments to the farmers.

Presents an account of the economic condition in the United States. Decision by investors and speculators that the Russian plan to sign a non-aggression pact was good for business; View of the politicians on Capitalizing the war; Revealment that the farmers and wheat people shot up the price of wheat; Statement that the locomotive engineers in England insisted they would continue to strike for higher pay.

Focuses on the significance of wheat trade in international relations. Information on international Wheat Agreement which was adopted by the representatives of 36 nations; Event which led to columnist Henry Wallace getting aware of the international magnitude of wheat problem; Steps taken by the Farm Board in the U.S. to support the price of wheat by buying it on the open market with adequate funds; Factors which led to fall in prices of wheat prior to the second World War; Dominance of Russian wheat in the wheat market prior to the Second World War; Problems faced in wheat trade in Argentina and the Balkan States; Contribution of Leslie Wheeler of the U.S. Department of Agriculture towards wheat trade; Steps that Hungary and Rumania need to take if they wish to market wheat in Western Europe.

Presents a news brief on a social worker Charles Luckman who is putting on a super-colossal performance as leader of the drive to save food in the U.S.; Comparison of his work and his associates to the New Dealers; Decision of the Luckman staff to play down the "Meatless Tuesday" and "Poultryless Thursday" approach and base its publicity campaigns on a straight "Save Meat" and "Save Wheat" basis; Demarcation made between the Luckman plan and the Marshall plan.

Reveals that even as President Juan D. Peron boasts that Argentina is accomplishing marvels of generosity to aid humanity, to fulfill aspirations to peace, to foster "the material and economic rehabilitation of all suffering nations," he was restricting the world's supply of wheat and selling it at a very high price to those in dire need.

Comments on the wheat famine in the U.S. Effects of farmers' decision to hold back the last of the previous year's crops; Wait-and-see attitude of farmers towards legislative bills to raise the minimum price of wheat; Implications on wheat trade.