Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still deprive the government of $1,000,000 a week in tolls. Then there is cotton, Egypt's second biggest foreign-exchange earner after the canal. Because there is no money to spare for urgently needed insecticides, leafworms threaten to wipe out 30% of this year's crop. In desperation, the government sent almost 500,000 schoolchildren into the fields last week to pick leafworms off the plants. "We have yet another aggression on our hands," noted Cairo's weekly Rose Al Youssef wryly. "We must mobilize...
...current crop, though, does manage to bring to the Pyramus interlude a good deal of humor, albeit of a highly slapstick sort. Pyramus' whacking of Wall (Robert Frink) on the chest elicits a cloud of plaster dust. And when Thisby (Mylo Quam) says, "Come, trusty sword," she repeats the line, whereupon the "dead" Pyramus hands her his own sword, with which she then proceeds to stab herself with studied phoniness under the armpit. (Ritchard has, in fact, introduced throughout the whole show a lot of business straight out of vaudeville and the music-hall...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had a testy reply: "Our farm commodity programs work because farmers cooperate in diverting acreages from surplus crop production into soil-conserving uses. Many of them do this at a financial sacrifice because they know balanced supplies are in the interests of all farmers. Commodity program payments are not welfare grants." Nor, he might have added, are many of their recipients exactly welfare cases...
Last week, only a few days after Rhodesia announced its crop crisis, Britain sent an emissary to see if the Ian Smith regime was ready to talk. London's Financial Times was not optimistic: "Recent events must have confirmed the white Rhodesians in their view that the British balance of payments is in a worse state than their own, and that it is from the British side that concessions are likely to come first." Nevertheless, Britain's policy appears to have dour long-range implications for the Rhodesian economy. Because of sanctions, general exports from Rhodesia...
...people to root out the other five." Established in the days when Southerners paid their bills once a year when the cotton "came in," Rich's credit department patiently lets people pay when they can, never tacks on service charges. In 1951, when Georgia's peach crop was ruined by cold weather, the store ran a full-page ad in the Atlanta Constitution. It showed an empty peach basket and noted: "Rich's understands. Rich's can wait...