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...simpler and more effective solution to the President's urge to strike back at the Soviets would have been to double the price of corn, soybeans and wheat for the Soviet Union and its satellite countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1980 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...horde swarmed over frozen corn fields in search of natives, and otherwise entertained the Iowans with their big-city naiveté. A television news producer in Dallas called the Des Moines Register and asked, "Where do we find the pigs and corn? And can we cab there?" One reporter asked the state Democratic committee to help him find a caucus held in a small town fire station with a potbelly stove and a Dalmatian. "We said we could get him a fire station in a small town," said Sarah Herold, the party's press liaison, "but he would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Where Are the Pigs and Corn? | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Scarcely three weeks after corn, wheat and soybeans plunged on news of the U.S. ban on sale of 17 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union, cash prices of all three crops largely returned to pre-embargo levels. The reasons for the rebound are many: the boom in gold and silver has led to a general surge in commodities; war scares have fanned fears of a reduction in available world grain supplies; a 1 million-ton export order has come in from Mexico; and there are rumors of higher demand from China. Most important, traders who oversold when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Economy & Business, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...ledges overhead. To end the problem, the state installed spikes, but the birds merely used them to anchor their nests more securely. Next the state spread a sticky goo that was supposed to give the birds hot feet. This did not work either. Then the state set out corn kernels that had been treated with a birth-control chemical. The birds still multiplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: For the Birds | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...political promise of gasohol outreaches reality. As prematurely outlined two weeks ago by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the Administration program called for about "5 million tons of corn" to be used this year to make "over 500 million gal." of ethanol. That would be enough to displace a little more than one day's worth of oil imports. The present annual U.S. alcohol distilling capacity is only about 80 million gal. and nowhere near enough to consume 5 million tons of corn a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gasohol Power | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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