Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past year, they have not been able to prevent the Communists from destroying bridges, blockading key arteries, attacking outposts and terrorizing local officials. Hanoi's forces have come close to cutting South Viet Nam in half at the Central Highlands, and have threatened the precious rice harvest in the Mekong Delta. Saigon reports an average of 80 enemy incidents...
When farmers brought in the most abundant harvest in U.S. history last fall, the Nixon Administration confidently predicted that agricultural supplies would finally be ample enough to slow down the year's runaway food prices. They were right-for a while. But suddenly all of the forces that drove up the cost of eating in 1973 so relentlessly are at work again; foreign demand for U.S. agricultural products is running higher than expected, for example, and the cost of livestock feed has risen sharply. Just for good measure, the energy crisis has added at least one new woe: farmers...
That possibility is particularly worrisome, since the Administration's long-range strategy to combat rising food prices is to do everything possible to encourage another record harvest in 1974. A preliminary survey compiled last week by the Agriculture Department showed that farmers do indeed plan to grow more than ever this year. Provided that the weather and other imponderables cooperate, they should harvest some 2 billion bu. of wheat, an increase of 300 million bu. over last year's yield. The jump in corn planting is up 10%, to more than 77 million acres. In fact, the profits...
...citizens and of export buyers by using home-produced raw materials. So the U.S. is increasingly at the mercy of inflationary trends in world commodity markets. American inflation has been fanned in recent years by such disparate events as the Arab-Israeli war, a low Soviet grain harvest, copper-industry strikes in Africa and even a change in the ocean currents off Peru (which temporarily wiped out the catch of anchovies, a key source of protein in animal feeds, causing panicky foreign buyers to bid up the price of U.S. soybeans...
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Harvest; dist.Capitol). Space-Rock's Pink Floyd in a hair-raising orbit...