Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchards throughout New England, the Mclntosh, Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Cortland apples have been ripe for six weeks, ready to be trucked to markets round the country or sold to nearby roadside stands. Last week as the harvest drew to an end, growers were hard pressed to gather in their crop?worth more than $50 million to them?before the fruit started spoiling and dropping to the ground. The weather and the Federal Government had, in the Northeastern farmers' view, conspired to make this a doubly difficult year. A snowstorm last spring destroyed blossoms. Heavy rains in September made...
...pickers themselves are feeling anything but harassed now that the harvest season is coming to an end. As they bring in the last of the crop, each can count on being about $1,500 richer. In the barracks at the Bolton orchards, the Jamaicans celebrate the end of the harvest by passing around a bottle of blackberry brandy, a favorite that they break out only on rare occasions. Vernon Spaulding, 44, is looking forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done...
...remove valuable brass plumbing, sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas of New York are being burned systematical!) block by block as frightened resident; move out, slumlords make no move to protect...
William Lewis '79, a second-year Viking, said yesterday's banquet "corresponds with traditional harvest festivals in which Norwegian people would build up spirit to maintain themselves throughout long and cold winters...
...been able to reestablish its agricultural production as rapidly as it had hoped to, and that the Vietnamese will experience serious famine this year. Current reports indicate the rice crop will be two million tons smaller than last year's, or 20 per cent short of the normal Vietnamese harvest. It is therefore even more important than ever that the United States government begin at the earliest possible date to pay reparations to the country it spent nearly 20 years destroying, and immediately authorize funds and send foodstuffs to avert the impending famine...