Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road to get a close look at 80 acres of Ohio potato and corn fields up for rent. "It's real good land," Joe said as they surveyed the rolling countryside in the fresh fall air. "It's got good drainage and you can see the good crop growing here." Larry nodded. "We can use the land," he said. "Let's take it." Before climbing back into the truck, he kneeled down and poked at the loamy soil, picking up a 3-to-4-lb. potato that had been missed by the pickers...
Inflation Hedge. Under the new grain pact, the Soviets pledged to buy at least 6 million metric tons of U.S. wheat and corn in each of the next five crop years starting in October 1976-whether they need it or not (any surplus presumably would be stored against future Soviet food shortages). They will be permitted to buy as much as 2 million tons more in any year, unless U.S. grain supplies fall below 225 million tons. That has not happened in 15 years; current supplies are 263 million tons. But if the Soviets want to buy more than...
Once the agreement was signed, President Ford lifted the two-month moratorium on new sales to the Soviets from this year's crop; he had imposed it at about the time longshoremen began refusing to load ships with wheat bound for Russia. The Soviets, who face a disastrous harvest, as much as 56 million tons below the planners' target of 215 million tons, are now free to buy from this year's record U.S. crop. The U.S.S.R. had signed contracts to buy 10 million tons before the embargo; it probably will buy about 7 million tons more...
Possible Setback. For the Soviets the deal buys time to improve the nation's badly functioning agricultural system. Internal Soviet political stress is building over this year's crop disaster, which Western analysts feel could be a setback for Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Says one diplomat: "The grain situation could put the leadership and Brezhnev on the spot." The necessity of buying grain from the capitalist U.S. is expected to be a touchy issue. Brezhnev can argue within the Politburo, however, that the U.S. wants Soviet oil as much as the Soviets want U.S. grain...
...great interest to the majority of India's 600 million people, who are more concerned about the fact that the government has completely halted inflation (down from 31% in September 1974) and that India's three-year-old drought has ended (experts now project a bumper grain crop this fall). Indians will long debate whether Mrs. Gandhi was justified in proclaiming the emergency, but the Prime Minister has won widespread support for seizing a rare opportunity to ram through a score of social reforms...