Word: gale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimated 170 million for 1974. Thus the U.S. would seem assured of enough grain to feed its own citizens and supply foreign buyers at prices somewhat lower than now. That prospect does not please farmers in the least: one of the nation's leading agricultural economists, D. Gale Johnson of the University of Chicago, calculates that net farm income will drop 20% this year, to $20 billion...
Although the contents of the report prepared for Gordon have not been made public. The Crimson has learned that the collapse was blamed on a sunlight-weakened seam and the failure of an alarm system to summon an engineer when the winds reached gale force...
Designated hitter Joe Mackey worked Brandeis starter Mike Fahey for a no-out, bases-loaded walk to bring Durso across the plate with the decisive run. Dave St. Pierre then lobbed one high into the gale wind behind second base that dropped in to score another. The play brought about more objections from the Brandeis bench, which felt the umpire should have invoked the infield fly rule on the play. As usual, however, the objections were to no avail...
...margin, the Senate last week passed a bill that may bring some relief to hard-pressed publishing companies that use second-class mail to deliver newspapers and magazines. Authored by Wyoming's Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, and co-sponsored by 22 other Senators including Massachusetts' Edward M. Kennedy and Arizona's Barry Goldwater, the measure would give newspapers and magazines an extra three years to absorb soaring second-class rates (TIME, Feb. 25). Under the present Postal Service schedule of phased increases, periodicals collectively will have to pay at least 218% more...
...Crimson managed only four hits the entire afternoon and only two off Northeastern starter Ed Minishak. One of those was a booming shot from the bat of Leigh Hogan in the sixth that sliced through the gale winds and carried over the right field fence out onto the tundra somewhere for Harvard's first...