Word: eureka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some farmers rallied to Carter's cause. One was Ronald Johnson, 41, who farms 1,100 acres in Eureka,Ill. Sitting in his kitchen, with a view over his winter brown fields, Johnson declared: "All that people like the Russians understand is raw, naked power. I just hope the American farmer doesn't have to be the goat." Most Eureka farmers have not yet sold 75% of their 1979 crops. But Johnson was luckier than his neighbors: he contracted to sell his record 1979 harvest of corn and soybeans even before the seed was in the ground, when prices were...