Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were British, American, French, Swedish and Israeli warplanes, a Soviet SST and even a new Polish crop duster, a jet that can fly only 100 m.p.h. But the star of Paris' biennial Air Show was Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 70, whose husband Charles touched down at Le Bourget airport 50 years ago at the end of his epic transatlantic flight. With her son Scott, she made an appearance for the dedication of a memorial to Lindy. Displaying a delicate sense of the appropriate, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, in attendance to open the U.S. pavilion at the show, gallantly passed...
Mangelsdorf, the other retired faculty member receiving an honorary degree today, is best known for his studies on hybrid corn seeds, which have opened up new areas of basic and applied research on this major food crop...
...brews and blends will have some time to prove themselves on the market. Retail coffee prices have risen nearly 170% since a devastating freeze struck Brazil in 1975; cold winds blew through the country again last week, possibly damaging next year's crop and threatening supplies. Though there have been some signs of a softening in coffee prices, most experts now believe it will be several years before the cost of a pound of ground roast will sink back to even...
...violently inflationary year of 1974, sugar seemed to many consumers an even bigger villain than oil. A combination of rising demand and crop losses due to bad weather caused the price per pound of raw sugar delivered in New York to multiply almost six times between January and November, to a high of 64^0. Angry consumers organized boycotts, but growers believed that they would not succeed. They thought sugar was one of those little luxuries that people would pay almost anything...
...brief, consumers did rebel: American per capita consumption last year was less than 95 lbs., down 8½ lbs. from 1973. At the same time, growers, enticed by the high prices, overplanted, and are now turning out more sugar than anyone wants to buy. World production in the crop year ending Aug. 31 is forecast to be 87.7 million tons, or 4.4 million tons more than the expected demand...