Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arbitrary about his background as he used to be about his name. Born some 58, 59 or 60 years ago in Jaroslau, Austria (now Poland), he studied at the University of Vienna, went to work as a "Young Pioneer" in Palestine. Sensing greater profits elsewhere, Spiegel became a cotton broker, traveled to the U.S. on business. In Hollywood he so charmed M-G-M Producer Paul Bern that Bern put him under contract as reader and adviser...
...scattered southwestern cotton fields, the slow, soft green of spring is sprouting against a strange background: glittering gridirons of broad black stripes. Paper-thin strips of polyethylene plastic stretch across the fields, warming the soil, conserving water, choking out weeds, protecting the land against the erosion of wind and rain. And if the coddled cotton crop that is even now poking tentatively into view grows close to its rich promise, its payoff may be the beginning of an agricultural revolution...
...replacement for such traditional mulches as straw or sawdust. Spread on the ground in early spring, it has doubled the yield of tomatoes, squash or muskmelons. But as long as it had to be laid out by hand, it was far too expensive for such big-time crops as cotton. And cotton, which is one of the milquetoasts of the plant world, cries out for all the help...
...punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth and moisture under the film, the seeds sprout quickly and grow up through the hole. Cotton plants mature as much as one month early. Weeds that grow in the bare soil between the strips of film can be easily destroyed without hurting the cotton...
...might as well settle down to the uncompromising fact that our people will grow in proportion as we teach them that the way to have the most of Jesus and in a permanent form is to mix with their religion some land, cotton and corn, a house with two or three rooms, and a little bank account. With these interwoved with our religion, there will be a foundation for growth upon which we can build for all time...