Word: harvests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Iron Monuments. Agriculture is China's jugular vein, and the year's critical period is the winter crop harvest, which takes place in spring and early summer. Current estimates are that this year's crop will fluctuate around the 180-185 million tons of grain achieved last year-a good but not a sensationally good harvest...
...close watch: the stick comes down in the form of close regulation of the free market, and the carrot is dangled in the guarantees of slightly higher prices for crops sold to the state over and above the compulsory deliveries. In the past and in the foreseeable future, every harvest becomes a time of national breath holding. In a borderline economy, any improvement is immediately felt, and so is every decline...
...week the judges announced sentence. For the assault on the hotel employees: a fine of $125. For the death of Hattie Carroll: six months in jail and a fine of $500. The judges considerately deferred the start of the jail sentence until Sept. 15, to give Zantzinger time to harvest his tobacco crop...
...COUNTRIES. In The Netherlands, the weather hurt the corn crop and stunted Dutch bulbs, draining them of their brilliant hues. In Belgium, the flax crop is bad, and the wheat harvest in some places is one-fourth its normal size. But of greater concern to the Belgians than the meager harvest or the tempestuous weather was a new law that goes into effect this week, creating a formal language barrier across the land. Dutch will be the official tongue in the Flemish north, French in the Walloon-dominated south, with pockets of both peoples stranded on the wrong side. Months...
...harvest is only a week or two off in the wine country of Southern France - and this year it promises to be a harvest of discontent. The French manage to drink 1.6 billion gallons of wine each year, but last year's record harvest of 1.9 billion gallons was too much even for them. One-third of it still rests unsold in the vats, forcing down prices and in some places making storage space for the new wine scarce. Since this year's harvest is expected to be fairly bountiful, the problem of oversupply has caused an economic...