Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really serious about being informed on the world food shortage, head down to Science Center B at 4 this afternoon for the first of three lectures to be delivered by Professor John Hawkes of the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England. This lecture will be on the "Patterns of Crop Plant Diversity". More on the topic will follow on Friday and Monday--same time, same place...
Heli-Homes are made, and were conceived, by an early whirly enthusiast named Fred Clark, 45, whose headquarters are in Sanford. Since 1965 Clark has been adapting helicopters under license for crop spraying, airline connections and Government use,.After long experimentation, he and Winnebago agreed that the S-58 Sikorsky was the best-suited chopper for Heli-Home conversion. Clark has already bought 56 surplus Sikorskys for H-H use, from as far away as Germany and Israel. Each of the craft will be rebuilt from the hull up under strict FAA supervision...
...wind was inflation, which leaped to an annual rate of 12.7% in February as measured by the Consumer Price Index, even worse than the 10% pace of January. By far the biggest rise came in food prices, largely reflecting fruit and vegetable shortages caused by January's crop-killing cold. Though most economists expect the rate to fall in coming months-they think the underlying pace is 5% to 6%-the February inflation rate was the worst in 2½ years...
...last year's 26 letter winners were freshmen or sophomores. Last season's kiddie corps is now back with a year's experience, two veterans who took last year off came back this spring to win starting jobs, and coach Bob Scalise has attracted the school's best crop of freshmen in years...
...galloping epidemic of inflation jitters has spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation...