Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson's 200 million countrymen, the year produced an unprecedented crop of complaints, based largely on the two great crises that came into confluence. Abroad, there was the war in Viet Nam, possibly the most unpopular conflict in the nation's history and the largest ever waged without specific congressional consent. At home, the Negro, more aware than ever of the distance he has yet to travel toward full citizenship, vented his impatience in riots that rent 70 cities in a summer of bloodshed and pillage. The U.S. was vexed as well by violence in the streets, rising costs...
...refloat Lebanon's most important bank, the airline, real estate and other holdings will all be spun off into a separate investment company. Large depositors, including the U.S. Agriculture Department's Commodity Credit Corp., which had $22 million in Intra as an export loan covering surplus crop shipments, will be paid off in stock in the new company. Investors with less than 250,000 Lebanese pounds (about $80,000) in the bank will be able to get half their money back within the next three years, will receive the other half in stock. Intra will also drop some...
...million) and Nihon Keizai (930,000). Putting out 42 daily editions, Asahi has 2,000 editorial staffers, 295 domestic bureaus and 24 correspondents overseas. Journalism is a profession with prestige in Japan, and papers are swamped with job applicants. This year Asahi picked the cream of 30 from a crop of 1,500 job seekers...
...annual hike since 1950, v. industry's 2.6%. Despite a pastiche of Government programs to control production and protect prices, farmers continue to grow more on fewer acres through fertilization, mechanization and technology. Freeman indeed takes part of the blame for this year's bumper crop because he trusted all-but-unanimous warnings of impending poor harvests and drastically increased planting quotas, then watched in dismay as ideal weather brought in history's greatest yields-both of food and discontent...
Mexico in 25 years has gone from importing food to becoming self-sufficient. Indeed, new breeds of Mexican wheat have gone to Turkey for the production of a huge new crop, to India, whose wheat harvest will leap 25% this year, and to Pakistan. If the winter rains are right, Pakistan will become self-sufficient in wheat next April for the first time. A new U.S. Department of Agriculture "doublecross" hybrid has made Kenya self-sufficient in corn. In Southeast Asia, the newly developed IR8 rice strain has been tested in Thailand, South Viet Nam, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines...