Word: eking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Land. One reason is Mexico's overenthusiastic land reform, whereby most of the big haciendas have been atomized into thousands of tiny, four-to twelve-acre ejidos and given to peasants. The bite-sized plots often prove so uneconomical that the peasant can barely eke out a living, let alone buy modern farm equipment. Nature, too, seems to be working against the farmer. Less than 75 million acres, or about one-sixth of Mexico's generally dry, mountainous terrain, are arable, and on those cultivated acres water is in steadily diminishing supply...
Brown managed to eke out a one-point victory earlier in the season, but the varsity should be able to take the Bears tonight. The only real threat Brown owns is their captain, Gene Barth, who is averaging 17.6 points a game and ranks third in the Ivy League. Barth hit 27 points in the last Harvard game, scoring again and again with his deadly set shot. If Harvard's coach Floyd Wilson took his team out of a zone defense as he did against Princeton, the Crimson would probably have an easier time defeating the Bears...
...industry is in a continuing and deepening financial crisis. A few of the smaller trunk lines without heavy competition on their routes make a nice profit, but some of the biggest lines are losing money flying half-empty jets across the country. The industry as a whole manages to eke out only a paltry 2% or so on invested capital. While the causes are many and complicated, most of the losses could be wiped out by one asset: more passengers. Last week, on several fronts, the airlines were busy revolutionizing the old concept of air travel with a new pattern...
South Korea's basic economic problem is agriculture: more than 60% of its 25 million population eke a living from land that is only 20% arable. Aggravating such poverty was a system of usurious interest rates for seed and equipment that ranged up to 60%, kept farmers in perpetual debt. The Park regime has cut interest rates to 20%, this spring distributed $77 million in farm credits...
...turkeys and hoosiers. In Columbus and Cleveland they are simply called hillbillies (the name they dislike most). By whatever name, more than a million impoverished white Southerners, comprising 20% of the population of the 250 Appalachian Mountain counties in nine Southern states, *moved northward between 1950 and 1960 to eke out a precarious living in the big cities. Packed into secondhand cars loaded down with their meager possessions, swarms still arrive every day in such cities as Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Springfield. With them arrive the hopes, problems and frustrations of a new U.S. minority...