Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grain-price increases that would raise the cost of the region's dairy goods and disruption of transport patterns that could bankrupt a number of businesses...
Many businessmen would probably be happy to receive more goods than they ordered, so long as they did not have to pay money for them. Not René Debruyne, a grain and pet dealer in Lille. When his shipment arrived at the port of Dunkirk, he refused to accept custody. He had ordered 20,000 turtles, and his Moroccan supplier had generously thrown in an extra 5,000-but the shipment had arrived three months late. "The summer holidays are approaching," Debruyne explained, "and I couldn't dispose of that many turtles...
...Nixon is saving us from the "Commies" as Joe Bananas of Milwaukee believes [May 28], how does Bananas explain the gift of our precious grain to the U.S.S.R.? Mr. Nixon is taking the bread out of our mouths to feed "our enemy...
...Gyrating Grain. The threat of export controls caused prices on the nation's commodities markets, where speculators have recently bid up prices to heights undreamed of only a year ago, to gyrate widely. On Thursday, prices for major grains and soybeans were "down the limit"-they dropped as far as trading rules permitted in a single day. The panic seemed to substantiate Nixon's assessment of grain speculation as a root cause of food inflation...
...despite widespread sentiment for law-and-order, Nixon was working against the grain of his time-the public desire for less secrecy, more accountability. Moreover the courts were unwilling to go along with many of the Nixon schemes, particularly John Mitchell's interpretation of wiretapping. The Administration had so weak a case on wiretapping that its own Solicitor General-at the time, former Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold-refused to argue it. He went so far as to tell Mitchell that his staff would not carry the appeal. It was one of the few times in history that...