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Benson has been the victim of a farm-productivity revolution, the combined workings of improved fertilizers, more and bigger farm machinery, deadlier pesticides and higher-yielding hybrid plants. But even his friends have begun to wonder whether he may have hindered rather than helped his announced aims. He justly carps at Capitol Hill's farm-vote-minded refusal to grant him all the support-shrinking powers he has asked for ("Our recommended program has never been given a real try"), but he has not always used the powers that he has to limit price supports, e.g., he voluntarily provided...
...human victims of acute radiostrontium poisoning are known), the chemical is a tasteless yellow dye, the rhodizonate salt of either sodium or potassium. Lindenbaum and his colleagues dosed their rats with the mildly radioactive strontium 85, which, for the purpose of the test, served as well as its deadlier big brother, strontium 90. Then the rats got the rhodizonate in moderate-to-huge doses every which way: intravenously, by injection into the peritoneal cavity, by stomach tube, and in their drinking water...
...much heard argument against nuclear tests is that since H-bombs are already powerful beyond comprehension, it is useless to go on developing bigger and deadlier specimens. But Teller points out that the U.S.'s purpose in testing nuclear weapons is not to make them bigger, but to make them smaller, more versatile and less dangerous to people outside the target area. Starting with the assumption that the West absolutely needs nuclear weapons to deter or defeat Communist aggression, he holds that it would be "completely inexcusable" to fail to push ahead with development of "clean" nuclear weapons with...
...small but gradually increasing doses into sensitive subjects. In the New York City area, the doctors found, the most vicious stinger by far is the yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons, represented elsewhere in the U.S. by closely related species). As with most Hymenoptera, the female of the species is the deadlier-the male has no sting...
...from dismantling it and building a sounder model as the Depression gave way to postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from 67 to 26. Since the early 19403, the average U.S. farm investment per worker has soared from $3,500 to more...