Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lone psychopath could control 27 captives. There was nothing to indicate that somebody bearing a grudge was responsible. Finally, police concluded that no ransom demand was likely to be received. In Chowchilla, a town of 4,550 in the midst of citrus orchards, dairy farms and fields of grain and cotton, the average income is $9,000 and few can be considered wealthy. That left only one reasonable theory: a terrorist organization had seized the bus to publicize its demands...
...survive, even to the extent of taking advantage of the civilization that nearly wiped them out. One of the four birds released last year on Carroll Island in Chesapeake Bay later took up residence on a bridge tower near Annapolis. The other three were spotted on tall buildings and grain elevators in Baltimore. There, like sharpies everywhere, they were preying on pigeons...
...record 6.55 billion bu. this year. Since corn is a key livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent of grain will not cause a glut that will harm farm prices, however, because the U.S.S.R. and drought-stricken Europe stand ready to buy the U.S. surpluses...
...more than a month of virtually no rain, the skies over much of Western Europe finally opened last week. But the downpours came too late to undo the damage already suffered by farmers in northwestern France, Belgium, southern England and northern Italy. Only an estimated 92 million tons of grain, instead of the anticipated 108 million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds. There...
Although "purple mountain majesties" and "amber waves of grain" are important aspects of our national heritage, what would America be without Disneyland, Baskin-Robbins or the buffalo burger...