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...Georgia, state agricultural experts calculated that the total crop loss thus far is about $450 million. Corn, which does not pollinate in triple-digit heat, is hardest hit; but soybeans, hay, fruits and vegetables, tobacco and peanuts are also being badly damaged. Marshall Spray, an Augusta game-bird farmer, has lost more than 25,000 quail since the onset of the heat wave. Said he: "If somebody doesn't help me, I'm out of business...
...June. The market has also been helped by the timing of the Soviet decision to resume buying American grain on the last year of a five-year contract. It was announced last week that the Soviets will make an initial purchase of 100,000 metric tons each of corn and wheat. That, plus an influx of commercial buyers, has pushed farm prices up for almost all commodities. "I don't think you can be bearish on anything," says Howard Fisher, a Chicago Board of Trade broker...
...mixed in with all the corn, of course, are a few good laughs. At one point, when the perfectually prissy and platinum (Sondra Locke) cuddles up to Bronco Billy in the back of his trailer, Eastwood gets all soft and sentimental and tells the story of his life. He went on the road, it turns out, after he went to jail. And he went to jail, it turns out, because he tried to kill somebody...
...reveal the countryside once again, rows and rows of corn and other delectable green things that, presumably, have already been sprayed for bugs...
...decision is final, said the federal district court, judgmentally; it makes no difference if Grosset has had a contract with the Stratemeyer Syndicate since 1930. That was an old story, and the latest adventures are as fresh as this spring's corn. Still, all was not black for Grosset. Although their claim for $300 million in damages was effectively dismissed, they would be allowed to publish the Tom Swift Jr. series, as specified in a 1951 agreement. Ruefully, the combatants might recall the innocent days when all that fictive boys and girls had to worry about was Melted Coins...