Word: breeders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novel Reactor. The other reactors will be more unusual. One will be a "breeder" designed to make more fissionable fuel (plutonium) than the U-235 that it consumes. It will generate 15,000 kw. of electricity (the experimental breeder at Arco, Idaho generates only 170 kw.), and its pumps and other components will be big enough for a full-scale breeding power plant...
...Everglades, "winter vegetable capital of the U.S.," rice and sugar are fast expanding, and in central Florida, millions are made each year in tomatoes, beans and corn. Overall vegetable production has soared 500% in 30 years. One cattle breeder and farmer, Gainesville's W. A. Shands, a director of Florida Power & Light, has grossed as much as $1,000,000 on 125 acres of celery land alone...
BULLY FOR THE BEAGLE'S ACHIEVEMENT AS u.s. NO. 1 DOG [TIME, FEB. 1]. AS OWNER AND BREEDER OF A.K.C. BEAGLE CHAMPION, MAY I SAY THAT NO "SLIGHTLY BOWLEGGED, APARTMENT-SIZE FOXHOUND" TRULY EXEMPLIFIES THE BREED. THE BEAGLE IS STRONG AND STRAIGHT OF BONE, FOR ALL HIS SMALL SIZE...
Since the first herd of Charolais cattle arrived in Mexico from France more than 20 years ago, U.S. cowmen have hankered after the deep-chested, creamy-white animals. There were formidable obstacles to getting them: the only big Mexican breeder of Charolais refused to sell more than a few at a time, the Mexican government was determined to keep its herd south of the border, and the U.S. was closed to both French and Mexican cattle because of the virulent foot-and-mouth disease.The U.S. Agriculture Department even refused to allow shipment of frozen Charolais semen into the country. Last...
...business, which provided roughly one-third of its $318 million gross last year, depends on steady advances in U.S. dairy methods. On Carnation Milk Farms, a 1,400-acre show place in Washington's Snoqualmie Valley where Carnation has bred more prizewinning Holstein cows than any other U.S. breeder, only purebreds are allowed. Pride of Carnation's Holsteins is Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a prolific champion that last year smashed the North American record for butterfat production by yielding a whopping 1.511.8 Ibs. in 365 days. But Carnation is even prouder of a bull, Governor of Carnation, which...