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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to soothe man and bird alike, the Navy is creating an airport for albatrosses on the nearby, nonstrategic island of Kure, hopes to build up the small albatross population there (current count: 700). Fortnight ago Navy bulldozers cut a series of 50-ft. swaths through the brush to make special gooney runways. But last week, at the peak of their mating season, the gooneys again defied the U.S. Navy. As ornithologists had predicted, not one winged off to the new, man-made sanctuary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Bird | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...been analyzed or even named. But it is a major discovery in basic knowledge, may lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a carburetor with a hammer for years in an attempt to adjust it," says Dr. Hendricks. "Discovering this pigment is like learning that a screw on the bottom of the carburetor is what regulates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...system, farmers who voluntarily restricted their acreage were protected by a support price of $1.36 per bu., while those who planted all they wanted to plant got only $1.06. The new law, supported by both Republicans and Democrats, aimed at compromise with a straight $1.12 per bu., with no attempt to control acreage. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rashly guessed that there would be little increase in corn production. Even when farmers disclosed their intentions to plant 10.9 million more acres to corn, he hoped there would be less of other grains, such as sorghum, oats, barley, etc., thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Corn Hangover | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...book, to be published today, makes no attempt to offer a final solution. Instead, it tries to clarify the relationship betwen the faculties of the American schools, their students, and the society they are going to face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Fears Federal `Influence' In High School Finance Program | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

James M. Henderson, assistant professor of Economics, has resigned, effective at the end of the term, to direct a four-year study which will attempt to find methods of revitalizing the lagging economy of the Upper-Mid-West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henderson Resigns To Study Economy Of Mid-West States | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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