Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great interest to the majority of India's 600 million people, who are more concerned about the fact that the government has completely halted inflation (down from 31% in September 1974) and that India's three-year-old drought has ended (experts now project a bumper grain crop this fall). Indians will long debate whether Mrs. Gandhi was justified in proclaiming the emergency, but the Prime Minister has won widespread support for seizing a rare opportunity to ram through a score of social reforms...
...much publicized grain robbery that has plagued the nation's export shipments in recent years has resulted in indictments of 52 individuals and four corporations. Last week one of the nation's largest grain exporters, Bunge Corp., became the first of those companies to accept the judicial consequences. Bunge, a privately held firm, pleaded no contest to a federal charge that it had for almost twelve years, until June 1973, short weigh ted ship cargoes at its two grain elevators in Destrehan, La., and Galveston, Texas. The company also offered no defense against a charge that it used...
...year period to hire more inspectors for its elevators, and pay for additional auditors, independent certified public accountants and an outside compliance consultant. U.S. Attorney Gerald J. Gallinghouse called the Bunge program one of "the most important steps that can be taken toward cleaning up the crime in the grain industry...
What you end up with are a few stunning, even shocking anecdotes and a lot of trivia, some of it boring and some of it mildly interesting. The shocking anecdotes are sometimes a little difficult to take without a grain of salt, but most of them are all the more shocking because they're believable. Maya Angelou, the writer and poet, was raped by her mother's boyfriend at the age of seven, an experience which obviously left something of a scar. Liberace says he "thinks he was raped" at the age of 13 by "a big chesty broad...
...Republicans who paid $125 a plate to attend the dinner heard Ford do his wooden best to raise party morale with his vow that he would continue to travel the country. Ford also promised full production for the farmers, predicted more grain sales to the Soviet Union and criticized the Democrats in Congress for "inflationary spending." Soon after his speech was over, Ford departed as furtively as he had arrived. Slipping out a side entrance, he waved at the crowd 30 yards away and disappeared into his limousine. Total time that he was visible: about five seconds...