Word: cropland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland. But diplomacy has not yet managed to move the Jordanians and Israelis to settle their quarrel over who should divert how much water and where from the Jordan...
...years-the longest life of any omnibus farm bill in U.S. legislative history. Its provisions essentially are little changed from previous programs, with the exception of an additional 50?-a-bu. subsidy for wheat, raising the support price to $2.50 for wheat grown for domestic consumption, and a new cropland retirement plan under which the Agriculture Secretary may draw...
...past three years (for wheat, $1.38 a bushel; for corn, $1), and that the Government should be prohibited from selling its surplus stocks at less than 125% of the support price, allowing the market price to rise above the support level. The Bureau even faults the new cropland retirement plan, though that has long been one of the organization's pet schemes for whittling down surpluses. "It can't possibly work satisfactorily," Shuman believes...
Much of the talk was inevitably about money. This year Egypt must pay Moscow the first of twelve annual payments on the estimated $271 million Moscow is putting into the Aswan Dam and ancillary installations. Though eventually the project will pay for itself in new cropland and electric power, these benefits will not be fully realized for nearly a decade, during which Nasser needs even larger sums for industrial development, and already Egypt owes the Soviet bloc $800 million plus a large, secret bill for arms. Khrushchev hinted broadly that there would be further massive credits-even though some Russians...
...million for irrigation and flood-control development to bring 3,000,000 more acres of cropland into production by 1980, making the country self-sufficicnt in farm production. Last year Venezuela spent almost $60 million on food imports...