Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he didn't get his corn...
...Cortes' time, the Indians planted their crops in 16 inches of topsoil. Now they count themselves lucky if they plant in six. Corn, grown year after year on the same plots, has sapped the goodness from the soil. In the current Harper's Magazine, William Vogt, chief of the conservation section of the Pan American Union, warns that "unless there is a profound modification in its treatment of the land, the greater part of Mexico will be a desert within 100 years." (The peril, warned Vogt, hangs over all Latin America...
...reached Anapolis and the town became the gateway to Brazil's rapidly growing west. Now Anapolis, with 15,000 rough-&-ready, gun-toting citizens, is as full of gusty confidence as west Texas. In the hinterland, droves of farmers are rushing in to buy up cheap land, plant corn, rice and beans...
...good idea to avoid plowing, so as to leave a layer of litter on the surface, but the plowless method works only in special cases. "Some farmers and gardeners," says he, "in the eastern part of the U.S.-especially city gardeners-took the doctrine literally and planted corn in fields of Bermuda grass-corn that got a few inches high, turned yellow, and finally perished...
UNESCO, with all its highbrow conferences and talky committees, is missing the whole point, said Read. It seems to assume "that culture is a concrete material . . . bartered like butter or steel . . . already stored up in universities, libraries and museums, waiting, like corn in Egypt, to be distributed to the hungry masses...