Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their daughter's. The front yard looked freshly plowed and the few trees still standing had been stripped of their leaves. The Gosnell's hometown of Atlantic, Pa. (pop. 225), had been leveled, its feed mill, post office, general store and gas station all destroyed. Even the green spring wheat had been ripped right out of the ground...
...plea was quickly answered. The International Red Cross set about raising $2 million for reconstruction, clothing, food and medicine. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia sent $4 million in cash and ordered the dispatch to Bangladesh of 30,000 tons of wheat, tents, blankets and medical aid. Japan pledged $1.2 million, Pakistan $1 million in relief supplies. The U.S. promised $575,000 in emergency assistance and said that more would be made available as the situation warranted; the United Nations made available $500,000. Other sizable pledges came from the European Community, the West German Red Cross and Britain...
...farmers improve their sagging sales in foreign markets. Keeping that promise, Agriculture Secretary John Block last week unveiled a new program that will in effect subsidize farm exports. Over the next three years the Government will give $2 billion worth of its surplus stock of agricultural commodities, like wheat and corn, to U.S. export companies. Under the plan, exporters will continue to buy grain from American farmers at regular market prices, but could then, for example, combine their purchases with free grain from the Government and thus be able to sell shipments to foreign customers at reduced rates...
reading list. Even if he goes to few practices or meeting, he will spend the whole time in misery, Knowing that 700 pages of The Role of Wheat in Medieval Latvian Politics or Warren Harding--Man or Myth are waiting for him in room...
...project hopes to raise a total of as much as $100 million, with at least $15 million coming from the sale of souvenir shirts. The fake merchandise has turned up in cities all across the U.S. Some of the bogus shirts can easily be spotted because a wheat-stalk symbol appears in the first letter of the word Africa instead of the last one. In many cases, the offending merchants have been turned in by consumers. Says Cooper: "People are absolutely outraged at this thing...