Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brezhnev can expect to harvest even more sympathy at his next stop, Sékou Touré's anti-French Communist-lining Guinea...
Reports of an impending world shortage of soybeans in 1961 started the beans jumping. The Department of Agriculture estimated the 1960 U.S. harvest at 559 million bushels, barely enough to meet anticipated demand. From Red China, the world's second largest producer (after the U.S.), came reports of a decimated soybean crop. Actions of Iron Curtain countries that depend on the Chinese harvest seemed to confirm the rumor: Russia de faulted on bean deliveries to West Germany and Denmark; East Germany began buying beans on free world markets. Even Red China itself began seeking liquid oils from India...
...China's regimented economy faltered, India reported its best economic year in history. Industrial production rose 15% over the 1959 industrial index of 151.9. The harvest is the biggest in Indian history...
Died. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were...
...wineries are supervised by four Christian Brothers, headed by roly-poly Brother John Hoffman, 49; and 25 or 30 younger brothers help with the picking and crushing at harvest time. But most of the work is done by some 200 regular employees and about 100 extra harvest hands, who are all union workers...