Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paddyfield far out in the Dominican countryside, a bare-chested campesino whipped his straining oxen. "Go, you lovelies!" he cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo...
...experiment with modifying the weather, and take improved pictures of the stars and planets. At San Francisco, for example, International Business Machines engineers suggested that an orbiting laboratory 200 miles above the earth could complete in two days a global survey of all land under cultivation, even distinguishing between corn and wheat and oats, and spotting plant diseases before they are visible to the human eye. It would take a fleet of 50 planes as long as 20 years to do the same...
Among the bank's most important customers are Thai farmers, whose rice and corn bring in 42% of Thailand's export income and account for much of its 6% economic growth rate. In the first program of its kind, the bank makes crop loans at 12% to 15% interest-compared to the 180% some village moneylenders charge-and has written 9,000 loans averaging $150 each, with practically no defaults...
...high-carbohydrate diet, with toast, corn, lima beans, shortbread, peaches, applesauce, pineapple, puffed rice, skimmed milk, grape juice, orange juice and a bit of sugar...
...into the mountains behind Hanoi in the hope of developing new agricultural land, but the million who have been forcibly moved complain of ghosts and malaria. This year North Viet Nam will fall 2,500,000 tons short of its programmed rice-production level, forcing the people to eat corn, millet and manioc-hardly favorites of the Asian palate...