Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supplies was a kind of supernutritious cracker that had a shel life of about five years. Inspections revealed that the crackers had become unfit for human consumption. Partly for thi: reason, the city decided to dispose of the survival rations and agreed to pay Edward Barniak, an upstate farmer, $1 a ton to haul them away. Barniak should do rather well on the deal, since he gets the medicines and other supplies, as well as 7,000 tons of crackers. Even they have a use. After being ground up, they are fed to his cattle, which so far have suffered...
...hurting? Evidently it is a minority of farmers who unwisely took on onerous debts in the mid-1970s to buy costly new acreage in the be lief that prices for farm land would continue to soar. The typical farmer, who has a modest 170 in debt for every dollar in assets, has no need to raise Cain in Washington...
...during Christmas rush at that-I had cordial and substantial meetings with Alton Carter (Jimmy's uncle and keeper of the family tales, possessed of an excellent narrative tongue and the sweet will to use it); Gloria Carter Spann (Jimmy's nearest sister, wife to a Plains farmer and the most retiring and impressive of the circle); Miss Allie Smith (Rosalynn's serene but clearly strong mother); and Jimmy and Rosalynn themselves (attentive as radar stations on the DEW line and pleasanter...
AMREX is the brainchild of Gerald Jackson, 43, a former real estate agent and farmer. He developed the concept of AMREX while teaching real estate at the University of California at Berkeley. In the course of his research he discovered that local ownership of a random sample of prime property in the Los Angeles area had dropped from 90% in 1945 to close to 40% by 1965. Deciding that such absentee buying could be better handled through a central exchange of sorts, Jackson started a West Coast exchange in 1968 with a local real estate firm. Though business was uneven...
...door to the city as it gracefully arches across an unused alley. The tattered remains of some gaudy political posters stick to an old brick wall. Politics have divided the town, especially since a city council election last year which pitted the town's barrelmaker against a prominent pear farmer...