Word: threshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they start buying, that is. Though Russia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary have indicated that they want 150 million bushels of U.S. wheat in a hurry, some problems remain. A four-man Soviet team headed by First Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Sergei A. Borisov flew into Washington last week to thresh them out. Chief stumbling block is a provision that the President wrote into the deal to help increase its political palatability in the U.S. It requires that the wheat be transported in U.S. ships whenever possible. Since it costs around $20 a ton to move the wheat to Russian ports...
...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...
...price-G.M., with prompting from the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, further improved its dealer relations. It extended dealer contracts from one year to five, hired an ex-judge to decide disagreements between the company and its dealers, and set up elected dealer councils to thresh out problems with company brass. The result is that today G.M.'s 13,800 U.S. dealerships are prized possessions. Says San Francisco Chevy Dealer Ellis Brooks: "Getting a Chevrolet franchise is the dream of everybody in the business...
...leaders of other rail unions met with Mitchell in Chicago to thresh out the problem of featherbedding on all railroads, Mike Quill turned his thick Irish brogue on Mitchell, whom he called a liar. The only heartening thing about Mike Quill's strike was the growing evidence that the U.S. has had its fill of Quill...