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...Marathon fund" and flew east for a long, punishing weekend. "Runners like myself don't expect to win," he said prophetically. "We have the competitive urge, but we run against ourselves." His wife Pat, who has learned to spice her menus with such runner's staples as wheat germ and honey, had a different opinion. "You're crazy," she told Dave...
When they could, farmers fought back. Their wives swooped on meat stores and plucked them clean. A group led by Mrs. Crayton Guhlke, wife of a wheat and cattle farmer, held a buy-in in Spokane, Wash., while LAMP (Ladies Against Meat Prices) was picketing on the streets. Mrs. Kenny Williams, a LAMP leading light, said she welcomed such an expedition. "That shows the public where the money is-on the farm." Trying a more conciliatory tactic, a group of 21 farmers in Columbia, Mo., bought most of a store's meat supply and handed it out free...
...farmers soared to $4.1 billion from $3.1 billion the year before, and food production dropped by more than 2%. Nixon's chosen executor of this policy, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, performed zealously. "You won't get me to apologize for high meat prices," Butz told North Dakota wheat growers last year. "I'm spending money like a drunken sailor...
...diggers found images of many more goddesses. All of them are bare-breasted and several resemble Elamite deities. One figure, seated under a tree and framed by sheaves of wheat, apparently represents the goddess of grain; another, surrounded by beasts and sprouting horns, seems to be the patron of animals. In fact, the presence of so many goddesses suggests that the society was a matriarchy...
...future agrees to take delivery of-and pay for -a certain amount of a commodity that can be sent to him anywhere from a day to a year and a half after purchase. That arrangement has given more than one investor nightmares about having 5,000 bushels of wheat or five tons of sugar dumped on his doorstep. In fact, only 2% of all futures trades result in actual deliveries to a bakery, metal-processing plant or other users of the goods. The rest are purely paper transactions; if the holder of a soybean future, for example, theoretically bought...