Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising waters took their toll. By week's end the flood had claimed 20 lives, routed 25,000 people from their homes and swamped 7,300,000 acres of rich farm land. At least 10% of this year's cotton crop and some of the soybean harvest were threatened. Upriver, as waters receded and mopping up began, farmers around West Alton, Mo., found nearly 10,000 acres of crops covered with silt and debris. But for the most part, the upper Mississippi was secure...
...Yusuf, faced these questions two months ago in an interview with L'Orient-Le Jour, the influential Beirut newspaper. Abu Yusuf, 44, replied that he did not expect his generation of Palestinians to defeat the Israelis. "We plant the seeds, and the others will reap the harvest," he said. "Most probably we'll all die, killed because we are confronting a fierce enemy. But the youth will replace...
Despite alert farmers, the tree thieves are still reaping a rich harvest. Mill owners are too happy to see black walnut logs to ask embarrassing questions, and new state laws designed to reduce tree rustling are proving hard to enforce. Thieves at work near Monroe, Iowa, added insult to injury. Spotting a black walnut tree near a house, they noticed that the residents were not at home. In felling the towering tree, however, they sent it crashing onto the house, causing $2,000 in damage. Undaunted, they cut off the top of the tree, took the trunk and left...
Elsewhere in the Ivies, however, Penn returns with the harvest from the winningest '72 freshman team in the country, beaten only by Princeton, whose varsity this season also poses a championship threat. The Crimson faces both the Quakers and Tigers, in addition to traditionally strong squads from Cornell and Brown, during a three-week stretch beginning April...
...American soil has bloomed as almost no one believed it could. Even though the U.S. farm population has continued to shrink from one out of every seven job holders to one in only 25 just since World War II-U.S. farmers are still able to produce a harvest out of all proportion to the nation's food needs. Whenever such surpluses hit the market, they obviously caused prices to shoot downward, often to the point of cruel losses to the men who grew the food. To this almost unique problem of enormous overproductivity on the farms, the Government...