Word: harvest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspapers were full of matchmaking advertisements, e.g., "Husband wanted for beautiful graduate girl, 23, with fine arts and classical music qualifications. Domesticated." Wedding music blared from hundreds of houses, and Delhi's 40,000 beggars reaped a rich harvest of coins traditionally tossed to them by merrymaking bridal parties. Delhi Glass Manufacturer Bawa Bachittar, marrying off two daughters in a joint ceremony, put up huge arches sheathed in flashing mirrors, and strung 30,000 colored lights along half a mile of roadway leading to his house. The Delhi state assembly was forced to adjourn because members had to attend...
More Cars for Less Wheat. Of late, the terms of trade have changed to Britain's detriment. A bad harvest in Europe sent the demand for foodstuffs soaring; commodity prices rose, and last January Britain found itself paying 149% more a month for its imports of live animals for food, 145% more for animal feed. "In the last three months," said the London Economist, "[the] adverse movement in the terms of trade has cut Britain's annual rate of real income by ?100 million...
...season in the Ukraine had ruined the harvest, and vast quantities of grain had rotted on the railroad sidings; in the Volga region, dry winds cut crops. It did not matter to Khrushchev that these failures were aggravated by his own plan to switch wheat production to Siberia, and that the harvest in the Ukraine had been delayed (and a fourth of it lost) because he had ordered much of the machinery for its collection removed to Siberia. All he wanted was something to pin on Malenkov, head of the negligent government ministries...
...trees as old as 800 years, others choked to death. McCullough had to absorb the hard facts of the lumber industry-how to figure permissible profits (12%), write newspaper ads, conduct bidding and police logging. He had to plan the cultivation of crops that might take 120 years to harvest. And he was profoundly impressed by what he learned: "Now that we're actually land managers, we've got an awful lot of real estate to get the greatest good out of for the greatest number. Someday we may be as good as the Europeans. Over there...
...U.S.S.R. is facing a food shortage. A disastrous winter in the Ukraine and dry winds in the Volga area seriously affected the 1953-54 harvest. A quarter of the grain was lost "through delays in harvesting, which sometimes took 45 days, as a result of the shortage of harvesting machinery" (much of it had been moved to Siberia to take care of Khrushchev's ambitious scheme for developing that dry and virgin area). In the same winter the meat and dairy industry suffered severe setbacks, and the U.S.S.R. lost 2% of its sheep flock...