Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still another prong would consist of measures to divert land from production of crops now in oversupply-a temporary five-year "soil bank," plus a special plan for transforming wheatlands on the arid western fringes of the wheat belt into grasslands for grazing cattle...
Thirteen years ago, Packard persuaded the villagers to let him irrigate 100 acres of their arid, salty plain to grow rice. Within five years. Packard's project in Anthili and other towns had converted Greece from a country that annually imported $5,000,000 worth of rice to a nation that exported $5,000,000 worth-on an initial U.S. investment of $43,000. Other Point Four schemes trained a Greek agricultural staff to teach 8.000 villages such basic matters as tractor maintenance and cheese making, instructed technicians to operate a new electrical power system, reorganized an archaic police...
...friends conspire to cure him of his vision, and he ends up, like any good little boy, building collective villages out of blocks and playing "Unmask the Kulak." In a thinly disguised satire of Communist Poland, Novelist Stanislaw Len describes the mythical planet of Pinta. Its soil is so arid that the government embarks on a series of irrigation projects...
...Communists. In the poverty-stricken south, income levels are still only half as high as in the industrial north, but Communist strength south of Naples is slipping. More than $2 billion in new industrial and agricultural developments in the south has created more jobs, raised the productivity of long-arid farmland. Foreign investors continue to treat Italy as a good risk; U.S. Steel is building a $16 million plant in partnership with the Italians. The unemployment rate is 16% lower than last year, wages have jumped 10%, and domestic sales are up 17% over...
...else personality has earned him enemies. What is more, some of his fellow Republicans wonder if the voters will find a stiff campaign against Carl Hayden such a good idea right now. Hayden heads the important Senate Appropriations Committee-and from that seat he can help arid Arizona get a healthy share of federal funds for water development, once the U.S. .Supreme Court untangles a bitter water-rights dispute between Arizona and California...