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Jiggetts was an All-Ivy selection at offensive tackle and a second-team All-New England last year as a sophomore. The 6 ft. 5 in. 265 pound Jiggetts was the mainstay of the Crimson offensive line this past season...
...starter, the Israeli pound was devalued an astonishing 43%, the eighth devaluation in 26 years. Imports of 29 luxury items, including autos, were banned for six months, and import taxes on 39 other luxury items were raised 10% and 20%. A six-month moratorium on the construction of all public and luxury buildings, imposed last July, was ex tended for another year. In an effort to discourage foreign travel, both the travel tax and the tax on foreign air fares were raised significantly...
...cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton brought as little as a nickel and as much as 40? a pound...
...rise, their citizens not only waste food and feed millions of tons of it to pets, but they increasingly eat their food in forms that enormously burden the earth's agriculture. People in developing countries eat roughly 400 Ibs. of grain per capita annually (barely more than the pound daily they need for survival), mostly in the form of bread or gruel; but an American consumes five times that amount, mostly in the form of grain-fed beef, pork and chicken. The industrial world's way of eating is an extremely inefficient use of resources. For every pound...
Even the U.S. is no longer the bottomless cornucopia that it once seemed. By October this year, miserable weather had reduced the harvest of corn by 16% and soybeans by 19%, while demands from the developing countries continue to mount. Merely to feed one pound of grain per person daily to their added population by 1985, they may have to import at least 85 million tons of grains, compared with 25 million tons now. Their import bill, figured at current prices, would top $17 billion for food alone; they would still have big requirements for imported technology, oil and manufactured...