Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midwest harvest headache...
...Dakota, who ship more than 50% of their grain through Duluth. But farmers in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa are also affected. Lost sales are costing North Dakota farmers between $1 million and $4 million a day, and if the port is not opened before the end of the harvest, more than 200,000 bushels of grain will have to be stored on the ground. In the open, as much as 25% of the crop could be lost through damage during the winter. "It's just terrible," complains Richard Goldberg, president of Goldberg Feed & Grain in West Fargo...
...Egypt's negotiating team, and then called on President Sadat at his hilltop retreat overlooking the Pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo. Sadat seated Strauss at the evening session so that while he talked the Ambassador would have a compelling view of the Pyramids, illuminated by a bright harvest moon. Strauss later informed Carter: "Under those conditions, whatever Sadat had to sell, I would have bought...
...Moon said in 1974: "The world is really our stage. We are going to be the ones who restore and bring hope to every corner of the world. The money is there, and I will earn the money. I will reap the harvest. And you will become soldiers, trained soldiers...
...buddy system." Down the road at M.I.T. where bespectacled scientists sit in cavernous laboratories and dream up new missile and radar systems, the Defense Department, not surprisingly, is in charge. Out in the Midwest, where soft-spoken graduate students plant hybrid crops and try to improve harvest yields, big brother is the Department of Agriculture. And here at Harvard, where the lion's share of federal funds is funnelled into medical research, people report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...