Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather has prevented the germination of a fungus that kills the locusts' eggs, enabling two particularly harmful species to hatch in overwhelming numbers. Since spring the hungry hordes have infested thousands of acres in 36 counties, chewing up wheat, corn, sugar beets and soybeans. Normally, fewer than ten locusts occupy the average square yard of land; crop damage begins when the number rises to about 30. This summer some Minnesota fields are aswarm with as many as 1,200 hoppers per sq. yd. Fields in the worst areas look as if they had been struck by hailstones...
...years. New pipelines, including one that cuts through Panama, have stolen much of the oil trade, and air freight and sea-to-rail transport compete for canal business, particularly consumer goods that are moved in containers. Still, the canal remains competitive in the movement of bulk cargoes, such as wheat and coal. Last year traffic through the canal reached almost 156.5 million tons of cargo, the second highest load in canal history. The U.S., the canal's largest user, sends 13.7% of its international seabound trade through the canal. Japan, the second largest user, relies heavily on the canal...
...President last week overrode a National Security Council recommendation, and his own general opposition to farm-trade supports, to approve a federally subsidized sale of $250 million worth of American wheat to the Soviet Union. But according to farm-state Congressmen, he made the $12 million subsidy available on only half the wheat the Soviets wanted to buy. The White House denies that, but such a move would be a typical Bush half-a- loaf compromise between the views of the Agriculture Department, which wants to assist U.S. farmers in competing against European export subsidies, and the NSC, which contends...
...faces express determination, involvement, expectation but also anxiety, for Mikhail Gorbachev is well on his way to creating a new U.S.S.R. TIME presents a 63-page report on how his reforms are changing the Soviet Union, from polling booth to factory, from classroom to stage, from wheat field to metropolitan market. Whatever course the Gorbachev revolution finally takes, it is already one of the most momentous events of the second half of the 20th century...
...were more moderate. Prices at the intermediate level rose 0.5 percent while the cost of crude goods dipped 0.1 percent after two months of increases above 3 percent. A loaf of bread is an example of an item at the finished goods level, flour at the intermediate level and wheat at the crude level...