Word: grains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of all his efforts, one stubborn economic fact remained: two years of drought had turned Syria from a land that once exported 159 million Syrian pounds worth of grain a year to one that must now import 50 million pounds worth. Some Syrians, completely forgetting that Egypt itself is perennially one of the world's neediest cases, have begun to demand that Cairo do more to help. But the lack of rain in Nasser's northern province was one thing that even efficient Soldier Amer could do very little about...
...dark shadow clouded Kosygin's glowing canvas: the poor 1959 grain harvest. Because of "unfavorable weather conditions" in the Ukraine, Kosygin said, the yield would merely "exceed the average annual harvest for the last five years." This was a tricky way of saying that the 1959 crop would be 20% below last year...
...type of bank that emerged from the maelstrom, a new type of banker was needed. One of the new bankers was Henry Clay Alexander. He was not saddled with the marks of wealth, caste and privilege. He was born in humble circumstances, the son of a grain and feed merchant in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He did not attend the best Eastern prep schools, had worked his way through Vanderbilt University, saved enough to go on to Yale Law School. He had not been trained to be a banker, joined the Manhattan law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed...
...Issue. By age-old tradition the Bembas had been required to offer their chiefs small amounts of grain to be made into a kind of beer for use in tribal ceremonies honoring the spirits of the chief's ancestors. This custom was an essential part of the tribe's pagan religion, and when the two Catholic Bembas urged defiance of it-following their consciences and the guidance of their white priests-their purpose was to combat paganism...
...decided, the case did not establish the far-reaching precedent that the clergy wanted. Barrister Russell took the cautious line that the two Bembas had really done nothing to offend native law because, he showed, in modern Rhodesia the grain tribute is no longer really considered essential. If an individual's refusal to contribute was no longer an offense, then persuading others to refuse could not be an offense. The court agreed, rescinded the fines. But it did not decide what will happen if priests in future advise their converts to defy recognized and living native laws...