Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more militant promoters of the farm strike demand that the Government boost price props so much that the price of wheat and corn would about double, cattle would go up 69% and hogs 47%. Doing that, warn Government agricultural experts, would bust the budget, raise domestic supermarket prices and squeeze U.S. farm products out of foreign markets. But the Carter Administration has made no effort to squelch the farmers' protests or strike plans. Says Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "I've talked to the President. The protests are a legitimate expression of concern. We're watching with sympathy...
...Women. Perrine plays Lillian Lorraine, one of Ziegfeld's girlfriends, who wants to be a star in the famous follies. So Ziggie obligingly surrounds her with lavish sets. In one inflated scene, she descends a 36-ft. staircase amid 6,000 balloons-pure Pop corn...
...grain deal of 1972, the Russians bought large quantities of U.S. wheat and corn at a time when American farmers were already fairly scraping their silos to meet heavy domestic and foreign demand. Prices of some grains more than doubled as a result, giving a sharp upward kick to inflation. Even more annoying was the fact that, because U.S. officials were not aware of the big Soviet purchases, the grain was sold under a Government subsidy program, which meant that U.S. taxpayers paid for much of the Russian grain bought in the U.S. To avoid a replay of that fiasco...
...months, Soviet farm experts in Moscow had spoken of average and possibly even record harvests. Agriculture Department inspectors visiting the U.S.S.R. were taken out to collectives to see sturdy stands of corn and wheat-fields that they now know to have been exceptions. Even the CIA was taken in. It has been trying to keep tabs on Soviet agriculture with eye-in-the-sky photo satellites, and its findings have been reasonably accurate in the past. But this time the photo interpretations went awry, because of what the agency calls bad 'ground truth" data-information from the observers escorted...
...Rotterdam, Destination U.S.S.R." Not only was the Russian demand for ships an omen that the U.S.S.R. planned to buy more gram than would be necessary with a good harvest, but it lifted world freight rates by 15%,which should also have produced alarm. Finally, U.S. prices of wheat and corn took a slight upward tick from August through October, a rare happening at harvesttime, when prices are almost always depressed. The only explanation: large foreign purchases...