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...Arkansas, one of the nation's leading poultry-raising states, more than 2.5 million chickens died. Poultrymen hosed down the coops and walked through them day and night, stirring up the chickens so that they would move about and be less likely to suffocate. In Texas the cotton crop-biggest in the state-was suffering, and so were fields of grain, sorghum and soybeans. The ominous forecast for this week: more hot weather...
...world in the production of steel, pig iron and cement. It ranks second in the manufacture of aluminum as well as the extraction of gold ?the two metals that respectively symbolize the modern and the primitive strengths of an economy. The Soviet Union's farms produce more barley, cotton fiber, wheat, oats and rye than those of any other country and?an incongruous sweet touch ?more sugar and honey. Huge petroleum reserves, second only to those of Saudi Arabia, have made the country self-sufficient in energy, although that could change by the middle of this decade because...
...players, however, were middle-class suburbanites out to fight inflation. Everyone seemed to know someone who had indeed won $16,000. There were runs on local banks for $50 and $100 bills to be used in the night's gaming. Dentists reported patients, even with mouths full of cotton, soliciting them to join the club. Games were held in unlikely hideaways, including Hollywood sound studios, chartered buses and the Grand Salon of the Queen Mary at anchorage in Long Beach...
...dairy cattle are the biggest farm commodities, but dramatic changes are taking place among the state's 250 other agricultural products. Last year was the second in a row when farmers made bigger profits from fruits and nuts than from staples, such as vegetables, wheat, rice and cotton. Increasingly, farmers are finding that the crops best suited for export provide the biggest profits. The almond harvest, for instance, has grown 4½ times since...
MARRIED. Norris Cotton, 80, Republican Senator from New Hampshire from 1954 to 1974; and Eleanor Brown, 77, his nurse-housekeeper for the past two years; both for the second time (each was widowed); in Charlestown...