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...From sun to sun they sleep on a bed of rushes in a hut of reeds. In the autumn they harvest a few sacks of sweet potatoes. In the winter they rout stumps out of the hard land to increase their pitiful sum of soil. In the spring they reap the winter wheat and thresh it with a flail as old as agriculture. In the summer they climb down to the boat, row across to the mainland, trudge off to the spring...
This is the garden. Time shall surely reap...
Estes' grain-storage kingdom grew fast -the amount of grain in storage soared from 2.3 million bushels in March 1959 to 54 million in February 1962. But there was an oversupply of grain-storage facilities in West Texas, and Estes could not keep his warehouses full enough to reap really massive profits. After the collapse, amid mounting evidence that Estes had been doing favors for Agriculture Department officials, the department put out these figures as proof of its virtue: early this year Estes' facilities were 43.4% filled with federal grain as against a Texas statewide average...
This is Harry S. Truman's year in the honorary degree sweepstakes; no one can doubt it. Today, the tenth anniversary of the CRIMSON's first prediction that the former President would reap an LL.D. the annual guessing game about the most mystical of Commencement ceremonies once again begins...
...quickly making himself one of the biggest anhydrous ammonia distributors in the U.S. His losses ran into millions-but the reckoning with Commercial Solvents was still in the future. Estes used the proceeds from his money-losing fertilizer sales to buy or build grain-storage facilities. He expected to reap hefty profits from U.S. Government fees for storing crops deposited by farmers under federal price-support programs...