Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Still, there is the wheat scandal, and we do call it a scandal down here, which had a very negative effect on President Nixon," White said. "This is an early wheat harvest belt; our farmers lost millions of dollars. Of course, (Secretary of Agriculture Earl L.) Butz said that the farmers gambled and lost, but the feeling of our farmers is that they were the only ones who had to gamble...
...inefficient system of production and distribution. In 1971-72, European Russia was bedeviled by a freak winter, when little snow fell to insulate seeds against record spells of frost. This was followed by a drought during the hottest summer of the century. The resulting crop damage and late harvest taxed the Soviets' inadequate technology to the breaking point. Trucks, harvesting machinery, railroad cars, granaries and manpower all seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...such theological stars as Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. They are no longer deluged with draft dodgers and dissidents-or even the great numbers of social activists-who swelled their enrollments in the late '60s, while the evangelical schools have begun to reap a rich harvest from the Jesus movement. Union and Chicago are also losing out on new students because of their crime-ridden urban locations...
...looked out over his 2,800 acres rich with cattle and cotton and said: "It used to be that we had three major problems-weather, pests and markets. Now we've got one that's even bigger-Government interference." In the midst of the nation's harvest this week, Garone and the other 2.9 million American farm owners have scant reason to worry about any of those problems-least of all the openhanded Federal Government. The 1972 crop should show the most bountiful per-acre yield ever, and farm income has risen a healthy 8% this year...
...main island, with a population of 500, has been ruled more or less benevolently like a feudal fiefdom for the past 145 years by descendants of a Scottish sea captain named John Clunies-Ross. He settled in the coconut-growing islands in 1827, imported Malay workers from Java to harvest the copra for export, and in 1886 his grandson obtained a grant in perpetuity to the islands from Queen Victoria...