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...smell the Ferrari now," chants a fresh crop of instant multimillionaires...
...local oligarchies and offer the peasant some hope of livelihood. In addition, the U.S. should be generous in supplying technical and monetary aid in helping the Central American nations diversity their agricultural sector so as to make countries more self-sufficient for food and less dependent on one crop economies...
...worst in many ways. Crop losses, particularly those of citrus fruit in the Sunbelt, could total $500 million. Deaths directly and indirectly attributable to the two-week freeze numbered nearly 500. Tens of thousands of lives were disrupted...
...pick and process their fruit for juice. Their losses could total $50 million nonetheless, and the trees may be seriously damaged. Nowhere are the economic stakes bigger than in Florida, where 75% of U.S. citrus fruit is grown. It is believed that a quarter of the nearly ripe crop, worth about $250 million, was wrecked by temperatures as low as 16°. "It was just like Pearl Harbor," says Everett Fischer, general manager of Winter Garden Citrus Growers. "You wake up and-wham!-you've been bombed." Commodity speculators last week bid up the price of orange juice...
...tons of wine grapes were left unpicked last year. E. & J. Gallo, by far the country's largest winemaker, reportedly turned down huge quantities of grapes offered at large discounts; its vast storage tanks in California's Central Valley were filled to overflowing. Even before the 1983 crop was harvested, there was an estimated 200 million-gallon surplus of California wine, which has now dwindled considerably...