Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuban economy is in tatters, but certainly not "back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer." Cuba's economy before Castro was buoyant and quite diversified, although the sugar industry was the basic business, just as steel is in this country. Contrary to what you say, Castro is a very real threat. Nevertheless, your portrayal of Brother Raúl as the archetype of the bastard is quite accurate. NÉSTOR E. CRUZ GAVALDÁ Villanova University...
...Russians and other Cuba traders were either unwilling or unable to supply machines for industry without a better barter deal, so back to sugar it was. This year the crop is up to 6,000,000 tons-but Castro is still hurting...
...many other countries have found it so easy to grow cane that world sugar prices tumbled from 10½?per lb. last year to a mere 2? last week. With more than half his crop committed to the Soviets under their barter arrangement, Castro will realize at most $130 million on open-market sugar sales this year...
...giving new scope for initiative at the bottom, the Kremlin is admitting that Russia's economic engine is painfully sputtering. Industrial growth and national income have both lost momentum since the early 1950s, now lag behind that of the U.S. Moreover, after a bumper crop in 1964, Soviet agriculture this year is again in trouble. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, in his speech following Kosygin's, felt compelled to assure the Central Committee that "everything has been done to assure normal supply of bread production...
Under a Canopy. Shemittah, so Orthodox Jews believe, is a commandment from the Lord, although Biblical critics believe that the custom originated as a primitive means of crop rotation. "For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield," God ordered Moses in Exodus. "But the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow." Normally, Israel's substantial minority of Orthodox Jews transfer their property through the chief rabbinate to an accommodating Arab. Because of pressure from religious parties, the Israeli government ordered the rabbinate to sell all public lands as well...