Word: graining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvest 1977 has been a time of paradox for American farmers: a season of too much and too little. In the Northwest and parts of the Midwest and central California, many grain growers were staggering under the effects of the worst drought in decades (see map page 18). Yet in most of the rich cornfields of the Central U.S. and the sweeping grain belt of the Great Plains, the rain came when it was needed. The land responded generously-and now Jimmy Carter's Administration is grappling with the problem of what to do with the immense bounty...
...previous record of 1.5 billion bu. in 1973. Beyond what it can consume and export, the U.S. will have on hand 84 million metric tons of those products at year's end. In parts of the growing belts, storage bins are so full that excess grain is being dumped in parking lots and even in the middle of streets...
...will be many years more before tractor exports have any perceptible impact on the Soviet Union's giant deficit in trade with the U.S. (more than $2 billion last year). But it seems somehow fitting that the Kremlin, having become a large and steady customer for American grain, is supplying tractors to help plant and harvest the crops...
...explains Electrician Clive Davey, who took the chicken run to South Africa this month after living in Rhodesia for 13 years. If there were a political settlement, would he change his mind? "No," he says firmly. "All that Rhodesia has left now is the sun." Ian Edwards, 33, a grain research specialist, emigrated last year to South Africa and later the U.S., leaving a vacant house near Salisbury that he could not sell. His parents stayed on in Rhodesia "They're too old to run," he says...
...Take two aspirins and call me in the morning." Those familiar words, spoken as often by jesting laymen these days as by doctors, still contain more than a grain of truth. Some 75 years after its introduction, aspirin remains the world's leading painkiller, used for easing aches of every type, from headache to hangover, arthritis to athlete's elbow...