Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the American farm belt, homemade signs are sprouting up faster than soybeans in June. They are posted on idle tractors, trucks and combines, on the sides of barns and the walls of farm cooperative offices. NO DEAL, NO MEAL, they proclaim. Or NO PAY, NO HAY. Or FOR YOUR NEXT BAG OF SUGAR, CALL FIDEL. Blunt and pithy, they capture perfectly the mood of America's angry, embattled farmers...
...farmers warn they will launch a nationwide strike on Dec. 14 unless Government price supports are raised substantially. They are threatening to stop selling their crops and stop buying supplies and equipment. Says Bud Bitner, a Colorado farmer who helped organize the protest, which is concentrated in such wheat-belt states as Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and the Dakotas: "We're not trying to shut off the food supply of the nation. We're trying to get a reasonable price...
...winning team of auto mechanics and lent his sudsy presence to the Annual World Belly Flop and Cannonball Diving Championship in Vancouver. This week he travels to Ohio for the U.S. Peanut Olympics, which involves a shelling contest and other hilarities. A line of Billy posters, T shirts and belt buckles is going on the market. California's Revell Inc. is manufacturing a model Billy Carter Redneck Power Pickup Truck. Billy has appeared at Manhattan's "21" Club to push a peanut liqueur, and a Kentucky brewer is bringing out a new brand called Billy Beer, which...
...ands or Buckleys about it. He threw two scoring strikes in the first quarter Saturday, a 20-yarder to Jim Curry and a six-yard shortie to Scott Coolidge, and generally ran the show the way someone with more than two weeks of multiflex under his belt should...
Harvard was unable to get untracked and was outplayed most of the way. UMass, which had some valuable experience under its belt, scored once in the first half and twice more in the second...