Word: durum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe looking for new markets to serve Europe's growing livestock industry; free samples of U.S. fried chicken, cigarettes and doughnuts are being handed out at trade fairs; Italian spaghetti manufacturers are being shown how to make good pasta with U.S. wheat, instead of their traditional but scarce durum wheat...
...letter of intent from a combine of Durum A.G. (Zurich) and Texas Oil Magnate John W. Mecom for the exploration, exploitation and transportation of oil both on dry land and underwater...
Endlessly westward from the 97th meridian stretch the Great Plains of the state of North Dakota, fertile in places, arid in others, baked by the summer sun and blown by the winter wind. Here wheat is grown, hard red and durum, and herds of beef cattle meander across far-ranging pastures, silhouetted against low horizons; here more than 40,000 shining combines work 63,000 well-kept farms. The farmers are apt to feel sensitive when casual visitors from lusher and more verdant places refer to their hard-worked land as a desert...
Long-barbed durum wheat-the kind that is good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist...
...They bred rustproof wheat varieties that kept U.S. fields almost clear of the disease for 15 years, accounting for a good part of recent bumper wheat crops. Last summer Race 15B, a new, extra-virulent strain, appeared on wheat from Pennsylvania to Texas. It attacked all commercial varieties. Durum wheat, used for making spaghetti, was hardest hit, with 10 million bushels lost...