Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government vehicles to carry their pounds-little pounds or big pounds-of black market coffee." Sugar may end up 500,000 tons under last year's 6,000,000-ton crop. In a desperate effort to get needed foreign exchange, Castro has launched Cuba's sugar harvest two full months ahead of normal...
REMEMBER! said the three-column ad in Indian newspapers, TODAY is A DINNERLESS DAY. Thus the government one day last week began its campaign to prepare Indians for what has become an annual food crisis. It was bad enough last year when India harvested 88 million tons of grain, far short of the nation's need. This year the harvest is expected to fall below 75 million tons. What with some 12 million more mouths to feed, India faces its severest food crisis in two decades...
...seldom pursued to a logical conclusion. In the midst of a passage on why divorce is necessary to preserve peace in society, for example, the sages will suddenly and bewilderingly leapfrog into a brief discussion of robbery and the right of the heathen poor to share in the harvest gleanings. Nineteenth Century Historian Isaac Jost compared the Talmud to a great mine, containing "the finest gold and the rarest gems, as well as the merest dross...
...spiral had not begun-at least not yet. Food prices, which reached a 34-month high in June and were a major factor in the 2.2% rise in wholesale prices during the year's first half, dropped in August for the second straight month, thanks to a bountiful harvest and beneficent weather. Steel demand tapered as the strike threat faded, and import competition remained stiff, serving to dampen any inclination toward rises in basic steel prices. Industrial investment this year will scale an alltime peak of $50 billion; that will expand capacity and reduce pressure on marginal plant...
...proposed that no single U.S. farm operation should be paid any more than $100,000 a year in support funds. He reminded his colleagues of President Johnson's pronouncement that the U.S. farm program should be directed "to the small farmer who needs help most." Some corporate farms harvest "as high as $11 million a year from the Government," Williams said. "And I notice from the list that the Mississippi State Penitentiary gets over $175,000. I wonder how any state penitentiary could be described as a small farmer...