Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
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...
...countries whose economies depend to a large degree on primary products, particularly sugar." Rippon felt that the wording was sufficiently strong. After all, if there were any inclination to welsh on that promise once Britain was inside the Market, London could threaten to make things difficult for the one-crop French African countries that are protected by special trading arrangements...
...from the import of lower-priced U.S. and Commonwealth foodstuffs to the Common Market's high-priced produce, which is protected by tariffs. The switch will mean a rise of as much as 28% in British food costs. The Six agreed to a timetable that allows Britain five crop years after entry to make the change. As a result, price markups on foodstuffs in Britain will come gradually, and the full impact on the British cost of living will not be felt until the late 1970s. The Benelux representatives, whose farmers grow mainly fruits and vegetables, were the last...
...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...