Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cluster of neat single-story frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time was a big event here." Now there are bigger and more ominous events in town. As has often been the case in the region's tumultuous history...
...Ronald Reagan's old Iowa neighbors have been quietly at work this summer putting together some more good luck to hand to the President in the fall. Unless there is unprecedented capriciousness on the part of nature in the next few days, the heavy ears of corn will mature by the trillions. They will either set a new record for yield, more than 127 bu. per acre, or come so close it hardly matters. And the soybeans, with almost human cunning, are making quite a show of their last 6 in. of growth. Forecasters expect them to disgorge...
...filled with greens, from the dark of soybeans to the lighter grasslands, and the fields were etched by deep shadows and white gravel roads. Their borders were sprinkled with wild roses and ring-necked pheasants whose vivid fall plumage is just beginning to erupt. The dense stands of hybrid corn, with stalks 10-ft. high, are so well nourished with fertilizers that they look like flawless cut carpet laid meticulously from fence to fence. Not in local memories, which go back nearly 80 years, is there such a picture of natural harmony...
...potential in bank credit cards. In 1966 McCoy persuaded giant Bank of America to extend its California-based BankAmericard to nationwide use and to let Banc One handle the mountain of paperwork. At first Bank of America dismissed the notion that an unknown outfit from Ohio's corn belt could act as a clearing house for a national credit card system. But McCoy persisted and eventually got the job. BankAmericard evolved into Visa, and Banc One today is the third largest credit card processor in the U.S. It serves 160 financial institutions in 28 states, performing more than...
Southern Russia and the Ukraine have sweltered through the hottest summer on record: wheat and corn have withered on the stalk. In addition, the weather played a cruel trick on farmers. When the grain was maturing and needed rain, the skies were cloudless. But as harvest time approached and dry weather was needed to reap the crop, thundershowers drenched the land. Corn, which is used widely for livestock feed, was badly affected in the flowering stage last month when it most needed moisture. Moreover, the unusual heat accelerated the growth of soybeans and barley so that everything...