Word: wheats
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...year era of the great steel plow, central instrument of American abundance and strength, is ending in an astonishing revolution now sweeping through Maryland and on to the Illinois bottomlands and the high hills of Oregon where corn, soybeans, wheat and cotton are grown. The upheaval in the long, quiet reaches of U.S. farmland has gone largely unnoticed in the din of presidential politics, the cries of rage from the torn inner cities, and the turmoil abroad. But it may mean as much to this country as all the other changes taking place around the world -- or even more...
...beyond the farm. Plows of mounting complexity and size were hooked behind teams of oxen and horses and then to crude steam engines. In 1894 Nebraskan Sterling Morton, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, decreed that the great seal of the Department of Agriculture would no longer have a shock of wheat in the center; it would have a shock of corn -- and a plow...
CONRAD: I think if you limit ((campaign contributions)) to just individuals and political parties, you have played into the hands of the wealthy. Frankly, I'd rather get money from PACS than wealthy individuals. With PACS you know the agenda. It's the homebuilders, it's the wheat growers, it's the sugar-beet people. With individual donors, in many cases you have no idea what the agenda...
...known as the Uruguay Round of GATT, the 107-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is in trouble. Washington and the E.C. are locked in a quarrel over how much Europe will be allowed to subsidize its farmers and thus give them an advantage over everyone from American wheat growers to Third World farmers trying to produce cash crops for foreign markets. There are fears that unless something is done to break the stalemate, the world will slip into commercial darkness and political tension. Warns GATT's director general Arthur Dunkel: "There will be major negative consequences for social...
...Disney is not a French adaptation of the company's parks in California and Florida. The Gallic accent is muted. There is no Moliere's Magic Theater, no Mad Marcel Proust's teacup ride. Euro Disney is the familiar all-American park somehow landed on 5,000 acres of wheat fields and beet fields in Marne- la-Vallee, 20 miles east of Paris. The attractions do not presume to explain Europe to Europe; instead they celebrate America the bland and beautiful, and reinvent it, Disney-style. Hence the transcontinental, cross- cultural ruckus...