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...import food and fertilizer, machines and medicine for its hungering millions. Pakistan's plight was almost as critical; its imports of oil and fertilizer topped $355 million. Sri Lanka's rice farmers had to pay 375% more for fertilizer; they reduced their buying so much that the rice harvest fell almost 40% below expectations...
...Inflation will at last lessen-with good luck and a bounteous autumn harvest-to an annual rate of between 6% and 7% by year...
Carry Nation. After a brief decline, Wichita boomed again in the late 1880s, this time as a grain market and milling center. During harvest, carts and wagons loaded with wheat lined its streets in columns ten blocks long. Sober homesteaders built schools and churches instead of taverns, and Carry Nation carried her cause into the local saloons. The discovery of large oil reserves in 1915 produced another upswing and catapulted Wichita into the 20th century, attracting men like Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, who turned the city into the "air capital of America...
...less global note, there are a few indicators of economic optimism. Nature may not have been land to farm crops, but she has smiled upon vintners; this year's grape harvest in France and California will be more bountiful and cheaper than its predecessors. A number of food chains have vowed not to raise prices through the end of the year. The out-of-sight costs of materials and labor have had some hidden benefits. Millions have become craftsmen; the arcana of carpentry, plumbing and auto repair have been revealed to those who once thought they possessed ten thumbs...
Tryon. We local extras like to think our little community is a far sight nicer place to live than those boom villages Mr. Try-on built for The Other and Harvest Home. No weird twins up to supernatural devilment here, nosir, and no mythical human sacrifices either. Oh, we've had our odd sexual fandangos, if you get my drift, but if that's all you're after, you'll want to head on over to Peyton Place. Lots more action there...