Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks. But Alicia's leftover showers as it moved north were probably too late to save much of the devastated crop in what threatens to be the smallest corn harvest in a decade...
...diminished corn prospects are largely due to the Agriculture Department's payment in kind (PIK) program, which began with this year's crop. PIK is designed to ease the buildup of farm surpluses by giving surplus grain to farmers who idle their land. The program, which some critics label a windfall, brought about a planned 27% drop in the corn acreage planted this year. In July the Government estimated that the reduction would trim the 1983 corn harvest to 6.2 billion...
...drought and torrid temperatures quickly threw that forecast off kilter by at least 1 billion bu. The harsh weather arrived just as the corn was entering its crucial tasseling stage and kernels were starting to form. Now cornstalks are dying weeks ahead of schedule, as much of the farm belt's normally rich, brown soil is becoming increasingly yellow and cracked. Says Larry Quandt, who raises corn and soybeans in southern Illinois: "If the drought lasts any longer, it's going to be an extremely rough year...
Some economists are already predicting that this year's crop may be even smaller than the 4.7 billion bu. harvested 1974. Nevertheless, many farmers stand to gain from the shortfall. Corn now sells for some $3.50 per bu., up more than $1 from last year. In part because of such prices, the Government currently forecasts that overall U.S. farm income could reach some $27 billion this year, compared with $22.1 billion...
...ordered her to cut her shoulder-length hair. Mary Alice Williams was urged in 1979 by NBC's New York station to change her eye color with tinted contact lenses. Dorothy Reed was forbidden in 1980 by ABC's San Francisco station to plait her hair in corn rows. The three women, and many of their counterparts, cheered last week when Christine Craft, 38, won a $500,000 damage verdict against the former owners of a Kansas City station, KMBC, that dropped her as an anchor in 1981. Craft charged that Station Manager R. Kent Replogle told...