Kansas Wheat Prices and Yields Through 86 Years in Kansas
Kansas farmers and grain traders recall high and low prices as harvest nears. The First National Bank of Wichita provides a yearly table tracing wheat and corn yields, total production, and average prices since 1889, showing long term trends, drought years, and subsequent gains in yields and prices, with state and USDA data corroborating the history.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Board of Trade
Kansas
First National Bank
Wichita
USDA
Acre
Dodge City
Ottawa
Remarkable Journey of Vanilla from Bean to Flavor
Vanilla beans grow as climbing orchids in warm moist regions from Mexico to Peru with vines living about 50 years. Pods six to ten inches long hold black pulp and seeds the source of flavor, harvested before ripening then dried and fermented. Confectioners seek cheaper substitutes including tonka bean and vanillin produced synthetically.
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Deddre
Garnand
South America
PBS Feature Blooms With Dull Majesty In Beginning
AP Television Writer Jay Sharbutt notes PBS airs In the Beginning a 5 000 year origin of civilization in Egypt written and narrated by Kenneth Clark. The program has superb photography but will feel slow to lay audiences. It emphasizes art architecture and hieroglyphics with minimal maps. Clark presents a scholarly view of early Egypt linking warlike kings to state formation and the rise of organized governance.
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Jay Sharbutt
New York
Public Broadcasting Service
Tonight
Egypt
Kenneth Clark
Ancient
Walter Lasserly
Nile
Sakkara
Zoser
Clark
Pharoah
Akhnaten
Land of Nod
Bear Den Study Reveals Cozy Shelter for 300-Pound Bear
PUNKIN CENTER ARIZ AP a bear den proves snug as researcher Al LeCount of the Arizona Game and Fish Department crawls into the winter lair to install a temperature sensor. The device recorded 40 degrees during a 45 day study despite snow wind and subfreezing cold. the bear later ate the sensor.
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Punkin Center
Ariz
al LeCount
Arizona Game and Fish Department
LeCount
Chuck Hanford
Sports Car Cops Say They're Bridging Gap
Scottsdale patrolmen in flashy new sports cars say the vehicles improve public relations and bridge mistrust with youth. Malcolm Bricklin lent three $9,500 cars for $1 a year. the blue white cars attract crowds at schools and helped defuse a high school fight by drawing off spectators.
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Scottsdale, Ariz
Bill Long
Malcolm Bricklin
Bricklin
Canada
Scottsdale
Dave Townsend
Townsend
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Rod Turnbull
Garden City Telegram
Gemper
Rational
Morticia
PBS
Nile Valley
Mesopotamia
National Public Affairs Center For Television
British Broadcasting Corp
Karen
Arizona
Mazatzal Mountains
Hanford
Southwest
Garden City
Humphrey
Kc-Royals
Sunflower Excursions, Inc
K.C. Royals
Boston Red Sox
Dixon Inn
Missouri
Kansas City Royals
Worlds of Fun
City Telegram
Emma Thompson
8Th
the Garden City Telegram
Western State Bank
East Kansas Ave
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