Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snapped right back into the old form: "This attitude changed. They plotted the starvation of the people. America refused to sell wheat to us, intending to cause famine and so realize by peaceful means the objectives which France and Britain realized...
Until recently Canada managed to offset her perennial deficit in U.S. trade by selling wheat to the rest of the world, but this market tapered off last year, and Canadians blame U.S. international wheat giveaways and subsidized sales. Unless the problem of U.S. surplus-wheat disposal can be settled without injuring Canada, warns a Canadian official, it could threaten Canadian-U.S. relations even on defense matters. Canada and the U.S. must also work out joint policies for waterpower development of the international rivers of the Pacific Northwest, and Canada must decide whether its own long-term interests permit...
...Conflicts of interest in the international sale of wheat...
...Australian public, forever haunted by fear of drought, has followed Bowen's program with enthusiastic appreciation. When a long dry spell last month threatened to ruin wheat planting in the Darling Downs district of Queensland, the parched farmers clamored for Bowen's rainmakers. He sent airplanes reluctantly, knowing he could promise added rain over a period of months-not cloudbursts on order. Even when seeded clouds obligingly dropped heavy rain on several large areas, Bowen refused to claim credit. Nevertheless he smiles a little when he hears of his growing reputation among grateful farmers. "There...
...immediate, causes of the setback were three sharp economic blows. First, the worst drought in 87 years parched the fertile south, forcing Chile to spend hard cash for foreign wheat. Then unseasonal rains flooded the North. Worst of all, copper-the government's largest revenue source-plummeted from 55? a Ib. to 27?, and with every 1? drop the government lost $6,300,000 in taxes...