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...what they want -Paris silks, sail boats, U.S. breakfast cereals. On the land, output rose 23% in 1954. Per capita income is $450, highest in the Middle East. Water now flows through 65 miles of 66-in., Israeli-made pipe to irrigate 50,000 Negev desert acres planted to cotton and grain. Israel has struck oil near Beersheba. Though foreign estimates indicate that Israel will be lucky if the find cuts her present $35 million-a-year petroleum imports by much, the first well is already producing 300 barrels a day for Haifa's refinery. Though foreign firms have...
...Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars, went to work in a cotton mill when she was eight (she had been a midwife before that). At eleven, she left home to work in a beauty parlor...
...farm controls, imposed flexible price supports, acreage allotments, marketing quotas. But he was running a losing race against the technology of farming. With bigger machines, better seed and fertilizer, farmers produced enough to feed a much bigger population, and the nation's surpluses mounted-14.5 million bales of cotton, 938 million bu. of wheat, 3.2 billion bu. of corn. Inevitably, farm prices skidded, and gross farm income dropped to $32.6 billion, down $4.5 billion in four years...
...insects that try to feed on it. The chemical, called Thimet for short,* was developed by American Cyanamid Co. It is mixed 50-50 with carbon dust, and 8 lbs. of the blend is mixed with 100 lbs. of cottonseed before planting. The cost for an acre of cotton...
...Many cotton pests, including thrips, aphids, spider mites and cutworms, are controlled by the internal poison. Boll weevils are killed if they show up during the period of the poison's effectiveness, which is three to seven weeks. Big advantage of the internal poison is that it protects the whole young plant, while sprays and dust may leave some parts unprotected...