Word: harvests
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Whatever price increases may be attributed to the Soviet deal, they will not come from any grain shortage in the U.S. On the contrary, if much of the American farm surplus were not exported, it would have to be stockpiled, probably at Government expense. The wheat harvest, for example, is coming in at a record level, and the Agriculture Department estimates that less than half of it will be required for domestic consumption. Thus out of an expected crop of some 2.2 billion bushels, only 800 million is needed at home. But as Secretary Butz repeatedly demonstrates by dramatically peeling...
...ghetto riots is less of a worry than a newer danger: bankruptcy. At the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston last week, San Francisco's Joseph Alioto warned some 350 anxious municipal chiefs, "The seeds of New York are in every American city." To prevent a bitter harvest, the mayors called for yet more federal aid to augment increasingly burdensome local taxes. They urged Congress to pass President Ford's proposal to share $39.8 billion in federal revenues with states and cities over the next six years. They also endorsed two Democratic antirecession measures. One would give...
...Scoreboard showed the once reviled Yankees moving into first place. The new U.S. mood - some might call it a return to normality - may or may not prove too fragile to endure. But even Washington, for a change, had some good news last week: the Agriculture Department predicted a record harvest for the U.S., and bumper crops for much of the world around...
Furthermore, it is unlikely that the U.S. will again suffer the two major blows that so severely aggravated inflation in 1973 and 1974: the quintupling of oil prices and the sharp rise in food costs caused by unusually bad weather round the world. This year's U.S. harvest appears to be big. As for oil prices, they will almost certainly rise again in September, despite Ford's warning to the OPEC cartel last week that another increase would be "very disruptive and totally unacceptable." But the rise, while harmful, will be nowhere near as great...
Lillian Hellman, Litt.D., playwright. Aware of the ways of the foxes who spoil the harvest, her voice is satiric, uncompromising, compelling...