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...bounty, farmers from ocean to ocean and border to border will harvest the largest crop in the nation's history-1.4 billion bu. of wheat, up 7% from last year; 4.1 billion bu. of corn, up 15% ; 961 million bu. of oats, up 9% ; 624 million bu. of grain sorghum, up 27% ; 120 million tons of hay, up 3% ; 864 million bu. of soybeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: How to Shoot Santa Claus | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...Crazy Quilt." Squirreled away in silos and warehouses, the mess is worth $6.8 billion, consists of 795 million bu. of wheat, 1.2 billion bu. of corn, 640 million bu. of grain sorghum, 12 million bales of cotton and 1.1 billion Ibs. of tobacco. Though it has shrunk somewhat as a result of Food for Peace shipments, this vast reserve costs $365 million a year merely to store, and threatens to expand again as a result of this year's mighty harvest-which Agriculture Department officials view as an unmitigated disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: How to Shoot Santa Claus | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...slicks and old tires that it has been labeled a fire hazard. Adding to the scum and stench are thousands of dead fish that were smothered by the pollution. On a cruise up the Buffalo River last summer, Buffalo Mayor Chester Kowal slid past islands of detergents, pools of grain dust, and a general rainbow of industrial discharge. The stink was overpowering. "Unbelievable! Disgusting!" he concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: Time for Transfusion | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...homosexuals in the slums of Barcelona, in the face of a proud old taskmaster whose dingy urban cellar houses a school for stripling toreros. In one sequence, the disconsolate Miguelin wanders through a sere, light-washed Spanish landscape while threshers fill the air with a blizzard of pale yellow grain. Such scenes are a needed respite from many matchless closeups at the arena where the hero, his mouth pursed in a kiss of defiance, struts arrogantly before the bulls, finally coaxes his frothing and bloodied adversaries to die at his feet. Though Italian Director Francesco Rosi intends a social protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spanish Passion | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...billion worth of them) will be allowed to reach completion, the heavier effort for the next few years will go into quick-yielding small projects for farmers - wells, irrigation and roads. This year's harvest gives him a breather: 87,200,000 tons of grain have been cut and winnowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Pride & Reality | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

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