Word: corns
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...taking steps to stock Poland's larder. Last week the Reagan Administration announced plans to grant Warsaw $55 million in long-term credits to buy and transport 350,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Poland to help save the country's threatened poultry industry. The Administration also authorized the Catholic Relief Services agency to buy surplus American agricultural products at low prices for shipment to Poland. Reflecting just how critical its food shortage has become, Poland has attracted the concern of CARE, the New York City-based charity that first gained international recognition in 1946 by sending...
...whether Moscow was willing to buy, and, if so, how much. After a day and a half of bargaining in London last week, American and Soviet trade officials announced that the U.S.S.R. will be allowed to purchase 3 million metric tons of wheat and 3 million metric tons of corn above the 8 million tons it is allowed to acquire under the existing five-year agreement, which expires on Sept. 30. Both sides will meet again to discuss a new long-term pact; in the meantime, the Soviet Union will be permitted to buy up to 6 million tons...
...bacterial organism that would convert biomass like wood or grass into ethanol, which is used in the production of industrial chemicals. The company is also accelerating research into the mass production of vitamins and amino acids used to enrich foods. Success could cut the cost of additives in feed corn from $50 to as low as $2 a pound...
...Continental-style River Café or else at Gage and Tollner, which, contrary to the authors' statement that there are no bistros vraiment Américains in New York, is just about as American as you can get, serving the good Atlantic seafood and the great corn-fed beef of the Midwest, which, entre nous, is better than France's finest...
...good officer and NCO know the value that the military (and the Government) sets on saying nothing well. Why grope for the single best word when the Army offers a bulging granary of verbal corn...