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What doubts remained on Capitol Hill, about whether the Administration is planning to enter into massive trade with the Soviet Union and its satellites, were banished by the sudden appearance of one of the largest flights of trial balloons yet seen in the Washington sky. Speculative stories on the subject popped out all over the place. Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges coyly let it be understood that there was “much interest” in Administration circles in diverting a good supply of that pure Moscow gold into American business coffers; and the Canadian wheat deal looked for all the world like maneuvering to justify the U.S. getting its own feet wet.

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What doubts remained on Capitol Hill, about whether the Administration is planning to enter into massive trade with the Soviet Union and its satellites, were banished by the sudden appearance of one of the largest flights of trial balloons yet seen in the Washington sky. Speculative stories on the subject popped out all over the place. Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges coyly let it be understood that there was “much interest” in Administration circles in diverting a good supply of that pure Moscow gold into American business coffers; and the Canadian wheat deal looked for all the world like maneuvering to justify the U.S. getting its own feet wet.

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