Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a minimum of 120 tons of food must be distributed daily, but until recently have had to make do with less than half that volume. To fill its supply pipelines, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization is canvassing U.N. member nations for 10,000 tons of corn, 10,000 tons of rice, 3,000 tons of dried fish, 1,250 tons of dried milk...
...Russian Republic's youthful, dynamic Dmitry Polyansky, premier of the largest of the 15 Soviet republics, tried to put over his report by quoting a dirt farmer's lyrical letter to Khrushchev: "Affectionately our people call corn 'Nikita's daughter,' and in truth you, Nikita Sergeevich, gave corn its vital importance. I think we can compare corn, the queen of the fields, with a rocket that will thrust us into the orbit of Communist abundance and help us sooner to overtake America." But when Polyansky began talking about poor local corn harvests, Khrushchev interrupted: "Once...
Pilfered Ears. Ukrainian Party Secretary Nikolai Podgorny, member of the ruling Presidium, was next. When he asserted that his region's harvest was "almost on the previous year's level," Khrushchev snorted. And when Podgorny said bad weather cut corn yields, Khrushchev gave him a brutal verbal beating. "I'm certain, Comrade Podgorny, that the figures on corn yield you just cited are only for half the crop. The other half of the corn was stolen, torn up by the roots." "Correct, Nikita Sergeevich," cringed Podgorny. Roared Khrushchev: "So what has the weather to do with...
Reeling on, Podgorny tried to say that drought compelled many districts to cut corn before the ears formed. Again Khrushchev struck: "But that can't be, because if you can see that the ears won't head out, you know it is no good for fodder either, because it has already withered." Podgorny: "Yes, that must have been an excuse to cut the corn...
Podgorny: "I should like to confirm that with examples. In the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Stalino districts, they even cut green corn that could have been picked." Khrushchev: "That's impermissible. Why, it's simply criminal...