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...Agronomists in the Villages. A similar but smaller group, World Assistance, Inc., founded by the Rev. John Peters, an ex-Army chaplain from Oklahoma City (TIME, Oct. 8, 1951), was absorbed by World Neighbors. Its two pilot projects in India became models for what Dr. Burkhart plans to set up elsewhere: a system of small but highly trained technical teams, e.g., an agronomist and a nutrition specialist, who will settle down in selected districts, advising villagers and farmers in their immediate localities...
Cigarettes drooping mournfully from the corners of their mouths, the French farmers clustered in the cornfield, waiting for the show to begin. A bottle of wine protruded from the hip pocket of one, a long loaf of bread from another. Professor Jay C. Hackleman, a University of Illinois agronomist on loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon...
...done most of the testing of 2,4,5-T is Texas State Agronomist Charles Fisher. Back in 1938, Texas agriculture officials gave Fisher his assignment: learn how to kill mesquite. "They gave me $300, a team of mules, a wagon and a hand to help me one day a week," said Fisher. "We went through everything. At the start it was the old hand grubbing. That just cost too much. Then we tried coal oil. That worked fine, but it still cost too much. Then heavy-gear machinery and bulldozers. They cost too much...
...quarter of a century ago, an Indian government agronomist named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface. At the time, India had no tools tough enough for such a job. Then came World War II and with it an army of snorting U.S. tractors to build the Burma Road. When the war was over, Sethi persuaded his government to buy 200 of the tractors, teamed up with a U.S. engineer to found the Central Tractor Organization...
Figl had played a minor role in pre-Anschluss politics. Politically to the left of Dollfuss, he was never close to the inner circle of Dollfuss' Christian Social Party. A peasant-born agronomist, Figl was a director of the Catholic Bauernbund (farmer's association) of Lower Austria...