Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration officials argue that they had little choice. Demand for U.S. soybeans and other feed grains has gone through the roof, largely because increasingly affluent foreigners are buying more meat, and overseas sources of feed have declined because of bad weather (see following story). As a result, domestic feed supplies have grown scarce, and prices have zoomed as grain farmers, speculators, wholesalers and other middlemen tried for the fattest prices they could get. In Georgia and Illinois, for example, soybean meal in the past year has leaped from $100 to $400 a ton, and fish meal has gone from...
...independent Allied Pilots Association. Though pilots at other lines fly 80 hours a month, pilots at American have a contract limit of 75 hours, and they had been adamant in refusing flights that put them over that maximum. Management wanted them to work beyond that limit when bad weather, mechanical breakdowns or other problems made it necessary. Miffed, American's pilots began a "rulebook slowdown," taking their sweet time for routine equipment checkouts and throttling back on flights to arrive late. During the slowdown from December to April, American had to cancel 1,300 flights; connections were missed, baggage...
Rice is life itself in Southeast Asia, and this year there is not enough to go around. Freakishly bad weather last year has turned the region's usual bare sufficiency into severe shortage. The result: smuggling, hoarding, soaring prices and hungry people...
...yields may be low. The Nixon Administration has announced that exports of grains, including rice, may be curbed to keep domestic prices in line. If the U.S. will not export rice, Southeast Asians will have to look to their own resources, tighten their collective belts, and hope that better weather later this year will revive the "green revolution" that was to solve their chronic food shortage...
...civilization, or its arbitrary restraints. Once, backpacking along the John Muir Trail in California's Sierra Nevada, I left the path and bushwhacked across the high country for a day. It was a foolish idea. I was inexperienced, unsure of where I was heading, unprepared for bad weather. Climbing over huge boulders that ancient glaciers had dropped like pebbles along the timber line, I became terrified. What if I broke a leg or got lost? Miles of wilderness surrounded me. When I finally found a trail, I discovered with it a fantastic sense of achievement. One to one with...