Word: farm
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...country's sudden wealth has disrupted social patterns, and relatively little has trickled down to its 1,800,000 people. The vast oil industry employs only 8,000 workers and technicians, many of them foreigners. Only 2% of the land is under cultivation, and even workable farm land has been ignored as inflation, and the illusory promise of jobs spurred an exodus from the countryside. Even the nomad Bedouins have left the desert to live in the filth-ridden shantytowns that now encircle Tripoli and Benghazi. What little industry or trade exists, besides the oil business, is mainly controlled...
...weather-beaten, century-old farmhouse overlooking the St. George River near Gushing, Me., is one of the most familiar structures in America. Called "the Olson farm," it stands bleak and solitary above a brown-grass hillside in Andrew Wyeth's acclaimed and much reproduced painting, Christina's World. Now the house belongs to Hollywood Producer Joe Levine (Two Women, Divorce-Italian Style), who owns 13 Wyeths and has just paid $30,000 so that the house can be preserved and restored as a Wyeth museum. The producer and his wife paid a visit to Gushing to sign...
...here." It is, in fact, not only Dylan's way but his ultimate message, the adamant and irreducible core that's left after all the protest and preaching, all the politics and poetry are stripped away. As he sings in his own Maggie's Farm: Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them...
...major reason for the glut is bumper crops resulting from good weather. On top of that, the major exporting nations, except the U.S., have expanded their wheat acreage. In Australia, for example, the amount of farm land devoted to wheat has doubled in the last five years. Improved technology and a new high-yield strain of dwarf wheat have greatly reduced the annual import needs of food-shy India and Pakistan. Both countries now expect to become self-sufficient in wheat production by the mid-1970s...
...wheat. If so, the chief losers will be U.S. taxpayers because more farmers will elect to unload their crop at the domestic subsidized price and the Government will have to pay the cost of storage until the wheat can be sold. The problem is likely to prove persistent. U.S. farm experts figure that the world supply of wheat has grown so large that even a serious drought in one or two countries would not wipe out the global surplus...