Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only Nature herself works more insistently with the fate & fortunes of U.S. farmers. Agriculture's crop experts tell them how much they may grow (if they want Government supports) and economists decide how much they can collect for their crops. Its hydrologists help them outwit the weather; its Federal Crop Insurance Corp. protects them from loss if the weather wins. The Department's Rural Electrification Administration has brought electricity to more than 3,000,000 rural consumers; the Farmers Home Administration's 8,000,000 loans have helped 2,000,000 farm families...
...week a brave band of experts and laymen met in New York City to ponder the problem. They called themselves the Foundation for the Emotionally Unstable, suggested that the term "emotionally unstable" is more enlightening and less derogatory than the old names. The foundation's first job: to collect what little is known about the emotionally unstable. Then would come research into causes, treatments, cures. Finally, the foundation workers hope, both government and private institutions can be set up to give protection and care to the emotionally unstable before their unbraked emotions get them into trouble with...
...make nuclear energy available for peaceful purposes. "In fact," said Hafstad, "the history of technological development is replete with examples of civilian devices the development costs of which were borne by the military. Take such a lowly item as an aluminum saucepan. How long would it have taken to collect from housewives in dimes and quarters, the millions of dollars that have gone into the [wartime] study of the metallurgy and fabrication problems of aluminum? Or take airplanes themselves. Would the Post Office Department, for example, have been able to find the hundreds of millions of dollars for the development...
Commander MacMillan plans another trip to the Arctic this summer to collect specimens for the Peabody Museum and others. First mate Rand will make his third trip, along with Stanton A. Cook '51 and Ian M. White...
...tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...