Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration has taken the overall question of aid to Yugoslavia under close review. President Kennedy was angered by the hostility Tito displayed toward the West at the Belgrade conference of neutrals last month. Requesting a 500,000-ton shipment of surplus U.S. wheat to supplement their poor harvest, Yugoslav officials were informed last week by U.S. Ambassador George Kennan that no such commitment would be made-at least for the time being. Clearly, the choice was up to Tito: whether to be at least reasonably friendly toward the U.S. or to forgo its much-needed...
...billions of dollars every year." Latin American nations themselves are hesitantly beginning to recognize the problem. In the first hemisphere meeting of its kind, 66 tax experts from every nation (except Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic) gathered in Buenos Aires last week to study ways of collecting the hidden harvest...
...Sunday, there was no one in the fields to turn the cut grain, drenched by a recent rain, so that it would be dry on Monday. A collective farm boss in Rumania confessed that the peasants "just don't care any more." This year's total harvest in Eastern Europe will be scarcely better than prewar production in the same area. Significantly, perhaps, the best yield will be in Poland, where some 86% of the land is still privately owned and worked...
...midsummer, the Soviet press was trumpeting claims that this year's harvest would be the greatest in Russian history. Then last month the breast beating began in earnest. In Soviet Kazakhstan, home of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious virgin-lands project, Party Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev glumly confessed that grain production was down for the third successive year and would fall 36% short of plan. Kunaev-whose two predecessors were fired for farm failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain...
...reductions averaging 2%; Chevy, Falcon, Rambler and other major models also rolled in with lower tags. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index, which has risen barely 2½% in the past two years, showed its usual slight August decline (to 128% of the 1947-49 average) as harvest fruits and vegetables loaded the market and temporarily brought down food costs. More important, Labor Department economists predicted that the index would remain fairly constant for the rest of the year...