Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eager to Go. Hailsham has a right to worry about the brain drain. Skilled people anywhere feel the pull of the U.S., but most noticeably in England. Every year 60 science Ph.D.s-about 7% of England's total crop-leave for the U.S. Of ten research students in theoretical physics finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley...
Viewing the Crop. Soaring to metaphoric heights, the President urged that all Americans get together behind his new program. "Tax reduction," he said, "will not be passed if each economic group continues to treat growth as a crop to be divided, or if each group examines what is available through the wrong end of a telescope. If the low-income man looks at the dollar amounts of his cut, he will decide that the rich are getting all the breaks; and if the high-income man looks at the percentage cuts, he will decide the opposite. The facts...
...elected, Bosch sent up reform programs like soap bubbles. Besides new hospitals, schools, old-age homes and better transportation, he promised to dole out 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its sugar crop, which accounts for 70% of the country's export earnings of $140 million. So Bosch has pledged credits to small businessmen. He also hopes to coax more and more tourists to the country's four major hotels, its nightclubs, its cool, fragrant mountains...
Whatever the outcome of this afternoon's contest, coach Marion has bright hopes for next year. "Only three lettermen graduate and there is a fine crop of freshmen coming up," he says...
...agricultural program works to alleviate peasant poverty through land redistribution, technical agricultural assistance, and financial credit. The government, Cardenas said, has sent social workers into the field to instruct the peasants in crop rotation, the use of chemical fertilizers, and harvesting techniques...