Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the West like the deal he made a fortnight ago for $10 million worth of British buses to bolster his transportation system. But Castro cannot pay for many such deals unless he can wheedle a further relaxation of the barter agreement under which Cuba sells its dwindling sugar crop to Russia at 6? a Ib. v. the world market price of 10? a Ib. And this might take some talking-since it would leave the Communists with even less than they already have to show for their...
Having survived a wintry blast from Congress that nearly killed it, the great wheat deal between the U.S. and Russia finally yielded its first cash crop last week. In the biggest one-shot commercial grain transaction ever made by a U.S. firm, Manhattan's Continental Grain Co. agreed to deliver a whopping 1,000,000 metric tons of wheat to Black Sea and Siberian ports by early spring for $78.5 million, including shipping costs. Presumably, to compensate Continental for the difference between the heavily subsidized U.S. price for the wheat ($90 million) and the lower world market price that...
...Sugar, No Mills. But after five years of Fidel, there was nothing to cheer about in a Cuban economy sinking steadily lower with little hope of improvement. Mismanagement and a catastrophic October hurricane reduced the 1963 sugar crop to 3.8 million tons-lowest in 20 years and half the size of the pre-Castro harvest. This year, according to U.S. estimates, the crop will run only to 4,000,000 tons-barely enough to meet Cuba's Iron Curtain commitments. Russia had promised to deliver 3,500 automatic cane loaders and build 500 more in Cuba. As of last...
...boom was racing too fast, that another's was losing headway, or that still another's could not continue without strong medicines. But no one could gainsay the fact that most free, industrialized nations stood clear of crucial economic problems-while the Soviet Union's wheat crop failed, Red China's economy continued to falter at bare subsistence levels and Cuba proved a good showcase of how to ruin an economy in a hurry...
...only ten weeks. The best play to fall was Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal (it lost $40,000). Other foldees: Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy ($90,000 down), The Irregular Verb to Love ($35,000), Love and Kisses ($100,000), Double Dublin ($45,000). This crop was quickly followed by Tennessee Williams' new version of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More...