Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most coffee planters-"there are no coffee growers," says Cowgill-plant the trees and leave the real production problems to their poorly paid help, who simply follow tradition. In Guatemala, the tradition was set about 50 years ago in a handbook written by an Englishman after a three-week tour of Central America. Its main recommendation to coffee planters: plenty of shade (from other taller trees) and 12-ft. spacing between the coffee trees. Though his experiments are not yet conclusive, Cowgill believes that the elimination of shade would increase production. His experiments also indicate that the number of coffee...
...back from the Pole in 1912, the Strand scored a major international beat when a search party found his dramatic diary: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale . . ." On the tale, circulation soared to 300,000 in Britain...