Word: cropped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...commercials featuring aircraft silhouetted against flaming sunsets or sonorous "Wings of Man" pitches, Delta serves up pedestrian slogans like "The airline run by professionals" and the only slightly more inspired "Delta is ready when you are." Instead of grasping only for the glamour routes, Delta, the offspring of a crop-dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. The airline's success has paralleled the rapid growth of the South. Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport has become the third busiest...
...military career came to an abrupt end in 1953 with the death of his father; Carter came home to manage the family interests. The couple arrived just in time to preside over a peanut crop failure; the business netted $184 that first year. Slowly Carter began to build, stepping up his father's practice of buying local farmers' peanuts, then selling in bulk to the big processors. Today Carter Warehouse grosses $800,000 annually, and the Carter family owns, through various partnerships, 2,500 acres in Sumter and adjoining Webster County...
...alas, the diamond is threatened with extinction. In southeastern and southwestern France this season, farmers unearthed barely 40 tons of truffles, compared with an annual crop of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the mid-19th century. This was no truffling matter. Accordingly, 450 farmers and scientists met at a two-day conference early this month in the Perigord region of France to discuss the tuber's troubled future. Mourned Charles Parra, president of the Federation of Truffle Producers in the Lot department in southwestern France: "If we don't find a remedy, the truffle will disappear...
Next year's linksmen-with six returning lettermen and a fine crop of freshmen-should be able to improve vastly on this season's 7-6 record...
...America, the reasons for Cuba's melancholy failure at democracy go back a long way. In the first half of his book Thomas deals with everything from 1762, when the British captured Havana, to Castro's 1959 takeover. He cites the peculiar vulnerability of a rich single crop (sugar), which made the island a major prize for colonial exploitation and left it with an economy still cruelly dependent on the whims of foreign buyers. Partly as a result, Cuba never developed a coherent, stratified society. In colonial times, unscrupulous slave traders could, and did, buy titles from...