Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what has become an annual food crisis. It was bad enough last year when India harvested 88 million tons of grain, far short of the nation's need. This year the harvest is expected to fall below 75 million tons. What with some 12 million more mouths to feed, India faces its severest food crisis in two decades...
...brilliant plant geneticist whose hybridizations left his fellow Americans with infinitely improved strains of corn, juicier, hardier strawberries, and hens that would lay more eggs on less feed. Only last March he was in the Dominican Republic trying to introduce strawberries as a badly needed cash crop...
...fellow New Dealer, said: "Every time you ride or fly over this country and see the condition of the land-the plowed contours, the bulging granaries, the neat, productive look-you think of Henry Wallace. He saved the land and then made it possible for this nation to feed the whole world...
Dial for the Answer. Business some time ago began using computer centers to process data cards, count receipts or keep track of airline reservations from distant offices. Time sharing goes much beyond that. It links up as many as 500 widely separated customers with one large computer, lets each feed its own problems to the machine by tele phone through a simple typewriter con sole. The time-sharing computer can an- swer questions in microseconds, is able to shift back and forth swiftly among the diverse programming needs of many companies, small and large...
...stamps especially selected for good centering and "freedom from tears and other flaws." For the gardener, the Agriculture Department has a list of nurseries that sell rare plants. The bird watcher can rejoice in the fact that the Commodity Credit Corp. is authorized to donate grain in bulk to feed migratory birds during periods of blizzard, flood and drought. All amateur railroaders should have a copy of the Army Map Service's No. 8024, which charts each and every track of each and every U.S. railroad...