Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Cuba, posters proclaim TEN MILLION IN '70-a reminder that Fidel Castro is counting on an unprecedented harvest of 10 million tons of sugar next year. What makes that goal remarkable is that this year's crop will probably total no more than 4,500,000 tons. Nonetheless, despite drought, shoddy Soviet machinery and Cuba's inefficient armies of "volunteer" cane cutters, the Maximum Leader is confident of success. And why not? To achieve his target, Fidel is stretching the calendar...
...January to March. As productivity has declined, the cane cutting has become more and more prolonged. Castro began his so-called 1970 harvest this July, and he plans to press on for almost a full year, even though he will have to cut immature cane-thus jeopardizing the 1971 crop-and throw as many as 1,000,000 of Cuba's 8,200,000 people into the effort...
...states that make up the U.S. cotton belt, the unmistakable racket of mechanical cotton pickers filled the air last week. It was harvest time for the crop that reigned supreme in the South for a century. But even though modern machines have largely displaced the tattered ranks of Negro field hands, the resulting rise in productivity cannot conceal the fact that King Cotton is in deep trouble...
...contemptuous of the law, the author is also, unfortunately, only moderately knowledgeable about it. She has obviously relied on the expertise of her lawyer husband, but she seems only to have asked him specific questions. There is no deep exploration of the law's underlying rationale. Kittenish phrases crop up-"for some unfathomable reason known only to lawyers and judges"-which would be acceptable enough if the fathoms of the law were not clearly the business of a book about a trial and the functioning, or malfunctioning, of the legal system...
...each year, beginning in 1969). In a poor country, capital accumulation means cutting down consumption and putting in extra hours of labor with no material compensation. Since most of Cuba's foreign exchange (crucial to importing machinery) comes from sugar exports, it will try to boost its sugar crop, falling since the early days of the revolution, to a total of ten million tons. The key to achieving this goal is voluntary labor, by students, intellectuals, and urban employees, who spend about a month each year doing unpaid work in the cane fields...