Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cyprus the days were hot and the guns, for the moment, were cold. Turkish and Greek Cypriot sentries stood listlessly at the sandbagged strongpoints. Under watchful eyes of U.N. escorts, farmers drove their tractors through fields, bringing in the wheat harvest. At Nicosia's Ledra Palace Hotel, a new swimming pool was dedicated with a cocktail party. Not far away, a new Hilton was abuilding...
...been a 30% decline in the output of nationalized industries since 1962 and a drastic fall in production on the farms seized from French owners when they fled the country. Because of mismanagement, storage vats are filled with millions of gallons of wine from last year's harvest, and there is no room to store this year's crop. Anti-government bands roam the mountains of Kabylia, and last month a clumsy attempt was made on Ben Bella's life. So far, Ben Bella has maintained control through his ingenuity in sowing discord among his foes...
...works) offers a unique opportunity to follow the painter's path. Leaving the bleak peasantry of Nuenen (The Potato Eaters) for Antwerp and Paris, his palette brightens. When he reaches Aries in the south of France it bursts into the brilliant light of high noon (Sunflowers, The Harvest, his own Yellow House). Van Gogh spent the last two months of his life at Auvers-sur-Oise, there painted skies deepening with twilight. Through June...
...sugar prices higher on the world market and set the stage for a later killing. But most dealers on the New York and London sugar markets thought the moves were genuine evidence of Castro's economic disaster. Heavy spring rains in Cuba have hurt the already skimpy 1964 harvest; the much-touted Russian cane-cutting machines have so far proved a failure; "volunteer" labor battalions sent into the fields to do the job by hand hardly know a machete from a mongoose. Moreover, Eastern Europe has suffered two low sugar-beet harvests in a row, and may be pressing...
...odds it is one of Latin America's brightest success stories. In 1950, imaginative Peruvian entrepreneurs started netting the immense schools of anchovy in coastal waters and processing the small silvery fish into fish meal, a high-protein poultry and livestock food. So rich was the harvest and so great the demand that plants went up all along the coast. Today, fish meal is the country's biggest industry, and Peru has risen from nowhere to No. 2 rank (behind Japan) among fishing nations...