Word: grains
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...soybean crop in Alabama spilled out of all available storage elevators and was kept temporarily on barges. While dock workers ignored a state court's back-to-work order, one group of farmers threatened to load the crop onto ships themselves. Barges carrying the Midwest's feed-grain harvest to port were backed up at a score of wharves along the Mississippi River and the sight of corn piled high on the ground has become common. Illinois farmers have already lost some $15 million in unrecoverable sales...
...cargo from the liners' holds, railroads, truckers and import-export dealers have lost millions of dollars. Shipowners, who were already suffering from a worldwide decline in orders (TIME, Aug. 9), found themselves idler than ever. New York Shipping Broker Theofilos Vatis estimates that North Atlantic freight rates for grain have fallen 20% in the past few weeks...
...politicians are in a better position to reflect the intensity of anger and restiveness among the nation's farmers than Iowa Republican Congressman William J. Scherle, 48. A husky (6 ft. 3 in., 249 lbs.) feed-grain and livestock farmer from a diversified agricultural area near the Missouri River, the three-term Congressman has vainly tried to warn the Nixon Administration about its political vulnerability in the Midwest. He expressed his frustration last week to TIME Correspondent Jess Cook...
Always Hungry. As conditions within East Pakistan have worsened, so have those of the refugees in India. The stench from poor sanitation facilities hangs heavy in the air. Rajinder Kumar, 32, formerly a clerk in Dacca, says he is "always hungry" on his daily grain ration of 300 grams (about 1½ cups). His three children each get half that much. "They cry for more," he says, "but there isn't any more...
...Defense of Terrorism." In it be extended a theoretical analysis of the CFIA as a necessary link in the chain of American Imperialism to a political statement that the CFIA ought to be destroyed. That second claim, the call to act upon analytical judgement, ran counter to the academic grain. Dick insinuated that intellectuals do not have to be carried by the precision of their documentation to a hopeless cynicism, in which there is only the celebration of work, normally a means, as an end in itself. Similarly he questioned the valuation of intelligence divorced from a simultaneous valuation...