Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeing an opportunity for himself in Castro's sprawling program of land reform, Morgan talked the Agriculture Ministry into giving him charge of a fish hatchery. He raised carp, sunfish and black bass, read up on frogs, soon was ready to expand. Taking over 430 acres of a confiscated ranch along Lake Ariguanabo, Morgan spent $40,000 of the ministry's money digging ditches to hold his frogs, another $30,000 stocking the farm with frogs caught by peasants in the streams and marshes of western Cuba...
...Hard." Is there any solution? One might be to return to strictly academic criteria. But unless the Ivy League colleges expand (unlikely), or until the nation creates more good colleges that also enjoy Ivy League prestige, besieged admissions men seem due to depend more and more on subjective criteria...
...return to the traditional split of Mount Everest between Nepal and Tibet. But Nepal's Prime Minister flatly refused Chou's offer of a nonaggression pact. As for Nepal's bedrock problems. King Mahendra. during a month-long tour of the U.S. and Canada, hoped to expand Western sympathy for an awakening land hampered by feudal poverty and widespread (94%) illiteracy...
...patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from now, crowded India will have 80 million more mouths to feed; unless output is raised drastically, there will be scarcely two-thirds the amount of food needed to stave off hunger...
...Ford Foundation's contribution will finance a team of Indian and foreign farm experts to take charge of the program, build teaching centers to train hundreds of additional agricultural specialists, and construct a network of seed-treatment and soil-testing stations. The government will expand local storage facilities, distribute fertilizer, insecticide and seed for sale to peasants, and create a farm-credit system to help farmers finance their own improvements. The scheme will operate along lines of U.S. soil-conservation projects; farmers who agree to improvement plans will get a package deal of soil testing, fertilization and planting that...