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...allowed most factories in the frozen East and Midwest to resume at least partial operation. Perhaps a third of the 1.8 million employees who had been idled by cold-related shutdowns went back to their jobs. But some workers, such as the more than 3,000 watermen who harvest oysters in Maryland's still iced-over Chesapeake Bay, may have to wait longer to resume earning money, and industries in the Pacific Northwest, confronting a drought that is undermining hydroelectric generating capacity, face power cuts...
Under authoritarian rule, Gandhi has restored order to the Indian political scene and, more importantly for her own political future, taken great strides in improving the ailing Indian economy. With the fortuitous assistance of favorable weather patterns during the last growing season, India enjoyed the best grain harvest in its history last year. Farmers managed to amass a reserve supply of 17 million tons of grain--hefty insurance against future famines that will continue to afflict India whenever the monsoons fail again...
...although the majority will have to wait until the new prosperity trickles down to them before they can afford to buy much of it. For the first time since it won independence from Britain three decades ago, India last year made no new deals for imported foodstuffs. A record harvest of 118 million metric tons of food grains -mainly wheat and rice-has overflowed government granaries and is piled in the fields in polyethylene bags...
People in rural areas were afraid that even though Carter will be the first farmer in the White House since Thomas Jefferson, a peanut grower may not understand corn-belt problems. Because of unseasonably dry and cold weather this winter, the Midwest may end up at harvest time with unusually low yields in such high-income crops as corn and soybeans...
...permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull up seven acres of plum trees because, at $2.75 per hr. for a migrant worker's labor, he could not afford to harvest them. "The politicians should stay...