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...determination, and Mount Ayr shows a better spirit now than a year ago. Yet half of the county's people could now be below the Government's poverty line. "We can't continue to produce corn and soybeans like this," says Smith. "The Government can't be the final buyer of all the produce." Farmers know this too, but they are so swept up in the choreography of the harvest that they cannot dwell on the clouds of melancholy that dim the summer sunlight...
...Brauers were declared bankrupt on Tuesday, July 29. Their house, their 228 acres outside Norlina, N.C., and their 111 head of cattle will be sold shortly. At the end of last week they were still living in the house, hoping they might be able to rent it from the buyer, whomever that turns out to be. Failing that, they will move into their daughter's trailer on a flat, treeless lot down the road...
...sooner had Turner completed the MGM/UA acquisition than he started looking to reduce the debt mountain by finding a buyer for the company's movie-production-and-distribution business, its film-processing labs and its 45-acre studio lot near Los Angeles. In June he negotiated a complicated three-way deal in which the studio and film lab were sold to Lorimar- Telepictures (producers of Dallas and Falcon Crest), and the movie, TV and video operations went right back to Kerkorian. Proceeds from those sales might be sufficient to meet the September debt payments, but the terms are still under...
Soon after revealing the existence of the whole group to his wife, who is his undisputed business manager, he gave her two more as presents. They decided to try quietly to find a buyer who would keep the remaining 240 works together. They found him nearby. Leonard E.B. Andrews, a Dallas-born publisher of 19 newsletters, including the National Bankruptcy Report and the Swine Flu Claim & Litigation Reporter, had a house in Newtown Square, Pa., had occasionally had dinner with the Wyeths, and already owned six of his works. After spending two hours with the collection, Andrews agreed...
...water chestnut, which is just about what this crisp, icy salad vegetable tastes like. Jicama has been heavily promoted at the 87 Dominick's supermarkets, with good results. "We used to sell a case per store every other week or so," says Mario Zullo, the chain's head produce buyer. "Now we sell two to three cases per store each week. It has become a part of our everyday produce." Nor is jicama alone in beguiling Midwestern palates. Reports Jack Cerniglia, of the large Chicago wholesale firm La Preferida: "Four years ago, we ordered just 400 lbs. of different Oriental...