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...friend Henry Flagler, owner of the Florida East Coast Railroad, begging him to bring his railroad down so more people could visit the area. Flagler laughed; nobody would want to go that far south, he said. Then came the frost of 1896 that destroyed most of Florida's orange crop. The frost didn't reach Fort Dallas, however, and Tuttle saw her chance. She plucked some orange blossoms off a tree in the yard of her hotel and sent them to Flagler. He was impressed. He brought the railroad to Fort Dallas, and as Tuttle had predicted, the tourists followed...
...Arkansas, one of the nation's leading poultry-raising states, more than 2.5 million chickens died. Poultrymen hosed down the coops and walked through them day and night, stirring up the chickens so that they would move about and be less likely to suffocate. In Texas the cotton crop-biggest in the state-was suffering, and so were fields of grain, sorghum and soybeans. The ominous forecast for this week: more hot weather...
Dissidents from Eastern Europe have fled westward in recent years in everything from hot-air balloons to homemade tanks, but last week Aurel Popescu, 27, established a first. He and the 19 relatives he brought with him were the first Rumanian defectors to flee in a crop duster...
...situation is not likely to improve in the near future. The FAO warns that "unfavorable crop conditions" now prevail in almost every nation in East Africa and that without massive infusions of outside aid, several million East Africans may starve; thousands are dying every day. Says Robert Kitchen, a United Nations official in Nairobi: "From the Red Sea south, this area is on a collision course with disaster...
Human failings have been even more detrimental. In Kenya, says a U.N. expert, "90% of the trouble comes from bad marketing policies." Following a bumper crop of corn in 1978, the Kenya government overconfidently slashed prices paid to farmers by nearly 30% and sold more than 200,000 tons of grain on the export market. It also agreed to supply 8,000 tons of emergency food to Uganda, where the harvest had been destroyed during the chaos of Tanzania's war against Idi Amin. When last year's cereal crop fell short by 400,000 tons, largely because...