Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...span. They will neither huzzah nor protest but go on about the enduring business of living, finding fulfillment in family, church and neighbors. They are not recluses or faddists. Their butter and soap come from the store. They worked the land, taught country school, and welcomed the automobile, hybrid corn and television. And what they had at any moment was always enough. The nearest interstate highway (30 miles) or urban shopping complex (80 miles) did not lure them away. They stayed-part of the enduring underpinning for the man on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...lowan. "They are trying to put Hoover on a pedestal. He's not on my pedestal," she says. Hoover is still blamed for failing to help the farm economy. The Wood-sides held on-even through 1934 when the weather brutalized the prairies. Ross got no hay, no corn, sold his few cattle to the Government. There was almost nothing-but there was a new President...
...Nicaraguans and worked by agricultural workers some of whom earn less than $1 a day, produce coffee, bananas, cotton and beef for the import market. At the same time, peasants working tiny, inefficient plots of land (which often also belong to landlords) struggle to coax enough beans, rice and corn from the soil to feed their families, with perhaps something left over to sell in the local market. With the climbing birth rates, and the continuous introduction of labor-saving machinery in the large estates, peasants and small-town dwellers stream to the capital, attracted by rumors of work they...
...immediate history of the present crisis is one of lost opportunities. The production of basic food grains--corn, wheat, rice, barley, and oats--totalled one billion metric tons in 1973, enough to adequately feed four billion people if distributed equally, and the March 15, 1974 report to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, shows that there was a world-wide surplus of grains as recently as 1972. It shows grain production recovering in the years between 1968 and 1971, making up a cumulative deficit of over 100 million metric tons, which had resulted from disastrous harvests...
...Boost the amount of the loans that the Government can make to wheat, corn and cotton raisers who hold their crops off the market while waiting for higher prices and extend the term of the loans to 18 months from the present twelve...