Word: harvested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very simple. You pay your $1.50 and walk through the 50-ft. metal gateway poles hung with red-and-blue banners. You leave behind inflation, traffic jams, Watergate and the impending struggle of the autumn harvest. Ahead of you, the Ferris wheel arcs into the blue sky over beyond the livestock barns; a lemon-shake stand squeezes between a tractor exhibit and the milking parlor; on your left, the Pleasantville Community School stage band is warming up for a concert, and over there, an hour from now, the quilt-making demonstrations will begin. Pick up some cotton candy along...
...sell his crop for whatever the market will bring; if his price falls below specified target levels, the Government will send him a check for the difference. Farmers from now on can plant their property fence-to-fence if they wish. Even with planting restrictions, this year's harvest will be one of the most bounteous ever. Official estimates put the wheat crop at 1.7 billion bu. and soybeans at 1.5 billion bu., both records...
...some of these countries so hard that it will take them an estimated ten years to get back to their gross-national-product levels of two years ago. "Even with good rains," says FAO Spokesman George Dorsey, "there is bound to be a shortfall in this year's harvest. Some farmers, driven off their lands when wells went dry, did not return in time for this year's planting. Others ate their seeds to survive." In Mali alone, the government reports that 250,000 nomads have lost all their animals down to the last goat. For the nomads...
...Harvest Home, Tryon...
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