Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farmers complain that the government-dictated prices are so low that it is not even worthwhile to harvest their crops. Unions gripe bitterly about low wages and increasing layoffs in the auto, appliance and textile industries. Manufacturers complain that consumers are not buying, are waiting for prices to go down farther...
...hothouse valleys of California, acres of strawberries and asparagus last week were spoiling in the fields while growers looked with foreboding to the summer's melon and lettuce harvest. Al though the state has nearly 440,000 un employed, it faces a severe farm-labor shortage and huge losses in its biggest ($3.5 billion) industry - farming...
Typical was the disclosure that last year's harvest of bread grains was a huge 151.5 million tons compared with 1963's mere 107.5 million. The rustic Khrushchev would have ballyhooed news like that from the golden onion domes. The quiet men of the new regime buried it in a handbook of Soviet statistics that simply appeared-six months later-in Moscow book stores. But if the style in Moscow is different, the substance largely is not. With less flair but more efficiency and cautious consistency, the new masters of Moscow have continued Khrushchev's interdependent program...
...HUNGARY. Tourists who smuggle in scarce drugs or dabble in the black market for dollars are in for a tough time. Last year an American got ten months in jail for cracking up a rented car-it was state property. Anxious to show change as well as to harvest dollars, Hungary is generally cordial to former Hungarians who fled...
...nearly six miles through the rocky soil of South Island. Parliament will soon extend the country's territorial limits from three miles to twelve to protect New Zealand's infant fishing industry, which is being trained by the Japanese to catch tuna and by the Australians to harvest oysters. Hoping to form a kind of Tasmanian Common Market, New Zealand is renegotiating its trade agreements with neighboring Australia, which supplies 20% of all New Zealand's imports but takes only 3.5% of her exports...