Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week the judges announced sentence. For the assault on the hotel employees: a fine of $125. For the death of Hattie Carroll: six months in jail and a fine of $500. The judges considerately deferred the start of the jail sentence until Sept. 15, to give Zantzinger time to harvest his tobacco crop...
...COUNTRIES. In The Netherlands, the weather hurt the corn crop and stunted Dutch bulbs, draining them of their brilliant hues. In Belgium, the flax crop is bad, and the wheat harvest in some places is one-fourth its normal size. But of greater concern to the Belgians than the meager harvest or the tempestuous weather was a new law that goes into effect this week, creating a formal language barrier across the land. Dutch will be the official tongue in the Flemish north, French in the Walloon-dominated south, with pockets of both peoples stranded on the wrong side. Months...
...grant a measure of autonomy to Spanish Guinea, which is made up of the "provinces" of Rio Muni, a Maryland-sized West African enclave lying between Gabon and Cameroon, and the adjacent islands of Fernando Po and Annobón. The colony's 225,000 Africans, who harvest its coffee, cocoa beans and timber, and 5,000 Europeans will be encouraged to elect a rubber-stamp Parliament loyal to El Caudillo...
...world turned brown," cried Coffee Farmer Soguro Saito, who lost 5,000 of his 9,000 trees to the wind. Worried Coffeegrower Raimundo Pereira complained bitterly: "The cold wind that ruined my trees has no pity." Thousands of ruined farmers will have to wait two years to harvest another coffee crop, but, in Brazil's one-crop economy, the wind also meant hardship for countless others. Dozens of coffee-roasting plants and wholesale buyers will have nothing to work with; truckers will have nothing to haul; laborers on the large plantations will be laid...
...PHRENOLOGICAL LETTUCE PICKER, which "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ripe for harvest. Towed over the lettuce bed at one mile per hour, a 6-in. by 18-in. conveyor belt creeps over each head, pushing it downward in passing. The machine's small, electronic memory box has already been told how stiffly a ripe head should resist deflection. If the black box decides the head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads...