Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were so low that the fish could not make it upstream to spawn. At the Quabbin Reservoir, near Springfield, Mass., the water level dropped so far that a long-submerged race track came into view like a relic of some lost Atlantis. In Maine the 30 million-lb. blueberry crop was nearing its critical growth period in need of moisture. And the city of Concord, N.H., was draining water from a pond at a nearby private boys' school. All along the Northeastern Seaboard, the most thickly populated area of the U.S., suburban lawns were browning and trees and shrubs...
...spontaneity, a crooner's performance is as painstakingly choreographed, mood-lighted and rehearsed as a full-length production of Swan Lake. Crooners pay up to $10,000 to have an "act" written and directed for them, spend months perfecting their arrangements and delivery. Most conspicuous of the new crop...
Marking Up. Pricing Down. How much of a genuine lift the big crop will give Cuba's staggering economy is debatable. Most of the sugar is already earmarked for Castro's Communist partners, leaving little for the world market. Of the total, 3,300,000 tons will go to Russia, Red China and other Communist countries at a price Castro claims to be "something over 6? per lb." This trade is strictly barter, and the Russians are notorious for their markups. Compared with what they would pay in the West, the Eastern European satellites shell out 59% more...
...much sugar that the price has tumbled from 12? a lb. to 2? a lb. in 19 months. Altogether, in sales and barter with the free world, Castro can raise only about $145 million this year-hardly a bonanza, considering that Cuba got about $275 million for a smaller crop last year...
...from the Beach. "What is it all about?" asks Françoise Rosay, a world-weary old Frenchwoman caught in the tumult of D-day in Normandy. Such questions are staples of the burgeoning crop of movies about World War II. Perhaps the worst blow that can befall a war drama is to let the hostilities lag while homilies ricochet among the ruins, and Beach too often calls time out for talk...