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...killer. A cow walks in looking for water and she bogs down in the mud. She gets weaker and dies." Lynch has been forced to liquidate almost half his herd of 2,000 calves and cows for lack of both water and forage or enough money to buy feed grain. He normally rotates livestock from one pasture to another as grass is consumed, but this year none of the grazing land on his 20,000-acre Lake County spread is adequate. To get water to his cattle (each cow needs about 15 gal. a day), Lynch has it hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Drought Watch: 'Gloomy to Grim' | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Some consumers, forsaking coffee altogether, are showing new interest in old substitutes such as Postum, the all-grain brew invented by C.W. Post in 1895 to cure "coffee nerves." Locally marketed versions, like Grandpa Knight's Cafe-Grano, an all-grain roast sold in the Cincinnati-Dayton area for $1.89 per Ib., are also in demand as replacements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coffee Breaks | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...real estate company, which rocketed out of nowhere to No. 324 on a 1,928% increase in its sales, to $586 million. Though Norin made some gains in its basic business, it got its biggest lift by acquiring Maple Leaf Mills, one of Canada's largest food and grain processors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Year for the 500 | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...include military aid, estimated at $200,000 a day. Moscow also supplies almost all of Cuba's oil needs at bargain prices. But Cuba owes nearly $5 billion to the Soviets, plus $1 billion in hard currency to other countries. Agriculture has floundered, forcing Cuba to import beans, grain and meat from Europe and South America and rice from as far away as China. There is virtually no fish available: Cuba's entire catch goes for export cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Waiting for that Yankee Dollar | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...dress shoes and German hiking shoes because they fit and are comfortable. I find that most American shoes make my feet hurt, and they appear to be getting more and more uncomfortable as the years go by. As a matter of fact, we need tariffs on meat and grain as well as sugar, or I, as a farmer, won't be able to afford any shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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