Show NEI NEWS WS RE REVIEW VIE W far Farmers m ersIn 9 income cuch M e zd zooms ho M S new crisis hits europe 91 FARM INCOME great gain latest round in a heavy barrage of statistics apparently destined to make the american farmer feel that he is an unbelievably fortunate man was an agriculture department report that the nation nations s farm own ers are taking in more money than ever before it was estimated that total farm cash receipts during the first eight months of 1947 were 17 4 billion dol lars a 21 per cent gain over the same period of 1946 itself a record year the report said that the average farm operator realized a net income of 2 from agriculture and gov payments in 1946 and this year farm income skyrocketed still i higher as a result of continuing un demands tor for produce an increase of 24 per cent in prices was singled out by the re port as the chief reason for the booming income but the picture has another side that of farm expenses operating costs continue to increase and al though no estimate was made for 1947 the farmer s expenses went up 9 per cent in 1946 nevertheless if the agriculture department departments s esti mates are accurate the increase in farm income greatly outweighs the simultaneous rise in expenses CRISIS AGAIN Transfusion 9 life these days secretary of state george marshall has dincov ered is bounded on all sides by one ens cris s after another no sooner had he returned to the U S from brazil with the mutual american defense treaty tucked safely under his belt than he was beset with calls for succor succo r from cebil debilitated stated europe which alpar antly was sliding swiftly down the ways toward utter rum ruin insiders said the european situation really was desperate undersecretary of state robert lovett had sounded the first alarm shortly before Mar marshall s return when he said that eu rope s economic structure was cracking up faster than anyone bad had expected the fear blowing in on the winds from europe intensified bously balanced britain remained at the heart of the trouble but more grief was added by the news that bad weather had struck hard at crops in many european countries this year most nations had been forced to use their meager produce for domestic consumption rather than for export there was no profit in that they said in the U V S ft st began to appear more likely that a special session of ol congress would be called this fall to study the situation and perhaps set up tip the apparatus for another economic transfusion to give streng strength ib to the weakening old world U ISOTOPES S offer radioactive isotopes isotope s ol 01 american Amet ican atomic research have been offered in limited amounts tc all foreign nations for use in man kind s worldwide world wide and unending fight against disease the gesture marking the firof sharing of the fruits of U S atomic ovens vens 0 loomed more significantly or the uncertain frontier of global peace than any loan or economic aid so far conceived described as the most Import ani medical research tool since the microscope the isotopes tive forms of basic elements ar are utilized in the same manner as ma chine gun tracer bullets introduced into the body or blood stream they can be used to trace life processed pro cesse and plot the course of various dis eases they are of paramount imbor tance in current cancer research and one day may provide the clue leading to control and cure of that thal disease |