Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plantings that this year's harvest will hit 4.4 billion bu., 17% more than in record 1958. Iowa, the No. 1 corn state, expects an 827-million-bu. harvest, up from the record 669 million last year. Illinois, No. 2, anticipates 696 million bu., up from 599 million. Even No. 3. Minnesota, looks for 360 million bu., an increase of 15% over last year, despite a severe drought...
...they wanted to plant got only $1.06. The new law, supported by both Republicans and Democrats, aimed at compromise with a straight $1.12 per bu., with no attempt to control acreage. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rashly guessed that there would be little increase in corn production. Even when farmers disclosed their intentions to plant 10.9 million more acres to corn, he hoped there would be less of other grains, such as sorghum, oats, barley, etc., thus no substantial addition to total feed surpluses...
Last week he was busy filling orders for 15 ore carriers, bulk carriers, tankers and escort vessels for U.S. companies and the German navy. His ultramodern yard sends ships down the ways so fast that Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies. The 300,000-sq.-ft. yard has the biggest (capacity: 100,000 tons) drydock in Europe, an optical tracing device that projects cutting patterns on steel plates. Overseeing all is an electronic brain named "Big Brother" that tells Schlieker which machines have not worked at full capacity and why. From...
Many educators are blind to "the stark realities" of modern society, he writes. Moreover, they don't even have a "feeling of urgency" about the situation. He accuses Americans of complacency and of not doing "more to insure our meeting Soviet competition...
...report attacks what it calls "the cloudy meaning and extensive scope" of the affidavit, but insists that Harvard should not participate even if these provisions are clarified...