Word: harvests
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Carry Nation. After a brief decline, Wichita boomed again in the late 1880s, this time as a grain market and milling center. During harvest, carts and wagons loaded with wheat lined its streets in columns ten blocks long. Sober homesteaders built schools and churches instead of taverns, and Carry Nation carried her cause into the local saloons. The discovery of large oil reserves in 1915 produced another upswing and catapulted Wichita into the 20th century, attracting men like Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, who turned the city into the "air capital of America...
...less global note, there are a few indicators of economic optimism. Nature may not have been land to farm crops, but she has smiled upon vintners; this year's grape harvest in France and California will be more bountiful and cheaper than its predecessors. A number of food chains have vowed not to raise prices through the end of the year. The out-of-sight costs of materials and labor have had some hidden benefits. Millions have become craftsmen; the arcana of carpentry, plumbing and auto repair have been revealed to those who once thought they possessed ten thumbs...
...remains to be seen if the various blocs can overcome their differences and actually implement these agreements by supplying the huge amounts of grain and money needed. The long-range proposals did little to help the millions who may not survive until the next harvest. Hope was briefly raised that immediate gram needs-estimated by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization to be at least 8 million tons in South Asia and Africa-might be met when Canada and Australia together pledged 1.5 million tons of short-term aid. But the U.S., the Soviet Union...
...follow-up to Thursday's nationwide World Harvest Fast, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Society and a Yale group led by the Rev. William Sloane Coffin will man booths at gates one and six of the stadium where they will accept donations...
...present crisis, Kissinger outlined a comprehensive five-point program for global food planning. He urged the delegates to form a coordinating group and work out details for an international grain reserve that would assure an emergency food supply of 60 million tons. Participating countries would pool information on harvest prospects and stocks, agree on the size of global reserves necessary to protect against famine and share responsibility for storing and distributing the stockpiled grain. In its emphasis on distribution by need rather than commercial demand, Kissinger's proposal was an almost revolutionary departure-certainly for a U.S. diplomat -from...