Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dating from 1955, is correctly the dean of the triple century, weighing in inconspicuously at No. 74. The single true vein among the mounds of pyrite will come along around 6:30 tonight. Numbers 246 to 253 include the only two songs from 1959, two from '58's bumper crop, and four of the five that rate from the '57 vintage. This gold mine is preceded by one half of the 1961 total and one of the four '60 discs on the list. When Tom Jones follows the Diamonds "Little Darlin," however, you know that the deluge of modernity...
...island. They added that the frigate birds would constitute one of the worst aircraft-collision haz ards in the world. The frigate is a sea bird that spends its adolescent years far from the island, returning to mate only after it is mature. Each year, a new crop of adults arrives for the mating ritual, thus posing a problem to aircraft that could last longer than a decade even if an extermination program were undertaken...
...chief crop at Ayeleth is apples. During the season, it packs 40 tons a day, producing 2000 before the harvest's end. It has 2600 acres of land, 750 members, and a total population of about 1000--a relatively large and rich kibbutz...
Government plans to increase crop yields are based on hopes to change the type of plant harvested. At the moment, Cuba averages 40 tons of cane per acre, while Jamaica, with essentially the same climatic conditions, yields 60 tons an acre. In Hawaii, the figure is 200 tons. The Cuban economic planners are now slowly replacing old cane plants with new ones which yield much more sugar. But this is a slow process because cane lasts for 10 or 15 years and only 10 per cent of the entire crop is replanted each year...
...Russia pays six cents for Cuban sugar under a special trade agreement. (Before the Revolution, the United States gave a similar preferential price to the Cubans.) This year Cuba is reportedly committed to send Russia 4 million tons, a commitment it will not meet. Two years ago, with a crop of 5.3 million tons, Cuba had to buy sugar from Mexico in order to fulfill its international contracts...