Word: droughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore, good weather and fewer insects pushed the yields up for most crops. Corn farmers were well on their way towards producing an estimated 3,449,667,000 bushels, 16% more than last year's drought-affected crop...
When they chose Communism, Cowart danced a jig of joy, but after seven months of stern indoctrination his joy turned to disillusion. Instead of getting the university courses the Communists promised, the three were sent to labor on collective farms in drought-scarred Honan Province. As Cowart tells it, they rebelled, refused to work, made trouble and thus earned their freedom...
...Sale: Human Milk. The floods that devastated about one-tenth of Red China's farmland last year were the worst floods of the century; then, for central and southeast China, came the sharpest frost in 72 years, for south China the worst drought in 100 years. "The calamities were so serious," Red China's Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen reported to the Communist State Council, "that last year's food production was reduced by 25 billion catties [12.5 million tons]." Tientsin's Ta Kung Pao noted: "150 million peasants are short of food...
...soon he was accepting loans from the U.S. and Britain, making trade agreements with Italy, getting loans from the Export-Import Bank. After the drought of 1950, Tito brusquely applied for a U.S. emergency grant and got $69 million. But Yugoslavia, Tito boasted, "stayed faithful to our principles . . . giving no concessions, making no withdrawal from our Marxist line...
Commercial millers are willing to pay a premium of 25? a bushel for strong-gluten wheat. In a free market, this premium would encourage farmers to produce the high-quality grain. But it has not worked that way under the support program. While drought and a siege of rust have cut down on the output of strong-gluten grain, the price-support program has encouraged wheat farmers to sacrifice quality for quantity...