Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ledge supporting blooming begonias and the bookcase containing his leather-bound embossed sets of Blake and Turner prints, Economically equipped with half-a-dozen paints, water and one brush, he had had a gorgeous time. At 78, he had laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However harmless Mr. Feild thinks his watercolors, there is nothing insipid about their author. He possesses an enviable impressionability and gentle wonder. Most aspects of "the adventure of living" absorb Mr. Feild, and he has no hesitation to speak a piece...
...suspicion persists that Nixon may have something more specific in mind than merely enhancing his re-election prospects with the trip's inevitable harvest of publicity. One remote chance is that Nixon might try to coax China into joining a multinational conference on easing tensions throughout Southeast Asia, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Viet Nam. That would permit the U.S. to leave Viet Nam with less of an implication that it was forced out, or was deserting any of its Asian allies. However, Hanoi is a block to such an arrangement; it has repeatedly refused to consider...
...should be the best crop I've had in many, many years," gloated Delmar Grotefendt, surveying the fields of ripe golden corn on his 350-acre farm in Marine, Ill. Only last year corn blight, which destroyed 15% of the nation's corn harvest, rotted black much of Grotefendt's planting. Farmers feared that the virulent fungus might ruin up to half the crop this summer. Yet last week, a mood of quiet satisfaction was evident across the U.S. heartland as farmers began bringing in one of the most bountiful harvests in history...
Almost every crop will be larger than last year. The Agriculture Department expects a record 1.6 billion bushel harvest of wheat, or 18% more than in 1970. An unmatched 1.2 billion bushels of soybeans is predicted. Since the threat of widespread blight never materialized, the corn yield is expected to weigh in at an unprecedented 5.3 billion bushels, up 28% from last year...
...unused acreage. All together, the move will snip Government payments to farmers this year by $500 million, to about $3.2 billion. Economist Simerl reckons that because of lower prices the total cash value of the record corn crop might not be much higher than that of the 1970 harvest...