Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 434,000 freshmen can be admitted to the nation's institutes of higher learning. The number of high school graduates is more than 2,700,000, twice last year's record total. In part, the sudden increase reflects the coming to maturity of a postwar baby crop, but much of it is due to one of Nikita Khrushchev's colossal mistakes. In 1958 he decreed that high school students must work two days a week in factories, which meant adding an eleventh year to the curriculum. Factory managers complained that the students were a liability...
Egypt has so many civil servants that U.S. consultants have recommended firing 60% of them in order to relieve the bureaucratic jam. Egypt's poorly maintained air, rail and road transport systems are in a sorry state. Such basics as rice, matches and meat are scarce. The cotton crop, afflicted by a bollworm plague this year, is in hock to Soviet-bloc countries to pay for the delivery of factories, which the Egyptians manage inefficiently. In fact, there is only one thing that really works in Egypt-the Suez Canal. Because its foreign-exchange earnings are vital, the canal...
...Astros do considerably better at home (25 wins in 40 games v. 14 of 35 on the road this year). It is truer still that while the Mets set out to draw crowds with familiar-and fading-names, the Astros are starting to cash in on the richest crop of youthful talent in the majors...
...Gold. Introduced to the U.S. from Asia in 1804, the soybean did not become a significant agricultural product until World War II cut off normal U.S. imports of fats and oil. From a crop of 193 million bu. in 1945, output rose to 843.7 million bu., worth nearly $2.5 billion last fall. Soybeans are the U.S.'s most valuable agricultural export, ranking ahead of wheat and corn...
Commodities trading is more intricate than stock trading and a lot more hazardous for the unwary. Ranged on the steps of seven pits on Chicago's trading floor, the brokers transact orders for Kansas wheat, Illinois soybeans, or other crops that have not yet been harvested and in some cases not even planted. Sales of such futures are made with hand signals-palm up and in when a broker is buying, or up and out when he is selling. Fingers are held horizontally and manipulated to indicate prices offered or asked. Each contract represents 5,000 bushels...