Word: grains
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There is in fact a grain of truth in all of these theories. The insurgents are part leftist, part nationalist, part Communist and part Sihanoukist. Equally clear is that their military training and direction come from Hanoi. The 1970 coup, the subsequent U.S. and South Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, and the American bombing, served as the rallying point to bring all these factions together. They are united too in their contempt for Lon Nol, who is widely viewed as an American puppet-and an ineffectual and corrupt one at that...
...main business of the mission will be, as Bruce put it, to normalize relations. Apart from that, it will oversee American trade with China, which is expected to reach $500 million this year, largely due to the sale of cotton, grain, five Boeing 707s, and $9,000,000 worth of RCA communications satellite equipment. Much of the serious political business, however, is expected to be handled in Washington by Presidential Aide Henry Kissinger and Chinese Representative to the U.S. Huang Chen, who is expected to arrive by mid-June...
John Troyer, owner of a grain elevator in southern Illinois, is slowly going broke. Every day, interest on the $550,000 loan he took out last November to purchase 300,000 bu. of corn is mounting, eating away at his 4½?-per-bu. margin of profit. The grain has already been sold, but Troyer will not be paid until it is delivered-and there is no way to get it delivered. Railroads have promised him 87 covered hopper cars to ship the corn, but the cars have not shown...
Troyer is only one of thousands of farmers and elevator owners caught in the great rail tie-up of 1973. In Illinois alone, the state's agriculture department estimates, farmers have had 300 million bushels of last year's grain harvest ready for shipment for months, but cannot move it to market. There is a demand for some 12,000 grain rail cars, but only 5,000 are currently available...
...much as 40%. Prices for full-bodied malts, which give Scotch its smoky flavor, are strong now because of rising world demand; the Japanese, for instance, import malts to blend into such "Scotch-type" drinks as Suntory whisky. A supply glut, however, is still depressing the prices of grain whiskies, which are blended with malts to give Scotch its lightness...