Word: bins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bath for an entire year. In 1952, Burroughs completed Junky, a clinically realistic portrait of his addiction. Allen Ginsberg, who had met Burroughs while an undergraduate at Columbia, peddled Junky all over New York and finally found a publisher in Carl Solomon, whom he had met in a looney bin. The acceptance of Junky by Ace Books encouraged Burroughs to continue writing...
Grain farmers had bin-bursting harvests in 1979, and that was for the fifth year in a row. Farmers raised a record 7.6 billion bu. of corn. Much of it, 60%, will be used as animal feed; only about 10% will be consumed directly by Americans, usually in bread, breakfast cereal and fructose (a sweetener). The remainder, before Carter's embargo, was destined for export, along with 36% of the 1979 crop of soybeans and 60% of the year's wheat. The embargo is expected to reduce overall exports from the '79 grain crop by 8%. Most export grain travels...
...Sheng Bin Chiu '79, dorm crew supervisor at the time the letters were discovered in the closet of a Winthrop House room, remembered handing the letters to Winthrop House Superintendent Ben Bartie on the last day of the clean-up in June. Bartie said he does not remember receiving the letters...