Unable to find foreign purchasers for its wheat, the Federal Farm Board last week reverted to an antique form of barter to help reduce its surplus. Into the Brazilian Embassy on 18th Street marched George Milnor, who as general manager of Grain Stabilization Corp. is official custodian for some 200,000,000 bu. of U. S. wheat. There he was greeted by suave, dark Ambassador Rinaldo de Lima e Silva. After exchanging amenities, they sat down together at a table, squiggled their names to a document. When they got up and shook hands, the U. S. had contracted to trade Brazil...
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