Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began making deals with private American grain exporters, signing contracts for the purchase of 228 million bu. of feed grains (mostly corn), 154 million bu. of wheat and 46 million bu. of barley; 2) one of the driest months of July in 30 years afflicted the corn crop in Iowa, which normally produces one-fifth of the U.S. total, thus casting doubt on the previous forecasts; 3) the Agriculture Department's shaky estimates of Soviet grain production were revised downward from 210 million to 185 million tons because of continued droughts in the Soviet Union plus better intelligence...
That debut was typical of Jordan's career, played out in the melancholy minor league towns of Davenport, Iowa; Waycross, Ga.; and Palatka, Fla. The games, Jordan notes, seemed to have a will of their own, and the will was to lose. After a long series of catastrophic starts, Jordan finally admitted that his confidence, his control and his aspirations had come to nothing. "My career was no aesthetically well-made movie," he confesses, "rising action, climax, denouement. It was a box strewn with unnumbered slides...
Zena Beth Guenin Iowa City, Iowa...
Under a federal research grant, work with anoretics is under way at the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa and the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in Chicago. Says Dr. John Davis of the Illinois State team: "It's a life-threatening disorder, and it may be more common than we ever thought...
Night cracks day in Indiana; the sky explodes in Illinois. Chicago passes--a straining of the eye through the white glare of churned downpour. The Mississippi folds under a sheet-white concrete bridge with the decorum of 1 a.m. silence. Iowa flows through the early morning on the wave-crackling radio...