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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their assistants, painstakingly harvested and examined 30,000 different wheat strains from Canada, Russia, the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Mexico, India, while other workers planted experimental fields containing thousands more for harvest and research next year. Some day soon the scientists of Tibaitata Experiment Station hope to find the strains that best combine yield, taste, nutritional quality, disease and insect resistance. When they do, one of a dozen programs to help Colombian agriculture will have paid...
Land & Experts. The work began in 1950 in answer to a request from the Colombian government to the well-endowed ($500 million) Rockefeller Foundation, headquartered in Manhattan: would it help find "ways to provide the people of Colombia with more and better food as economically as possible?" The foundation sent in experts, the Colombian government handed over top-grade land and the search started. At first Tibaitata concentrated on wheat and corn, has since branched into potatoes, beans, forage crops, barley, farm administration, pathology, entomology, animal husbandry...
...Canada's record breaker took eight months to drill, augers down more than 12,000 ft. through a thick cap of Devonian rock. The gas-bearing section is 551 ft. thick, which indicates a reservoir of major proportions and almost an embarrassment of riches for Canada. Before the find, estimated Alberta natural gas reserves stood at 21 trillion cu. ft., which must now be revised upward. The new well alone could supply all the gas the new Trans-Canada pipeline can pump when it goes into operation late this year...
...Tamiment in the Poconos, and young Jerry Robbins did-as a borscht-belt dancer. Jerry (whose real name was Rabinowitz) wanted to be a chemist, but his immigrant father was toughing it out in the corset business in Weehawken, N.J., and Jerry had to take what jobs he could find...
...Caught with their rate cards down, network pitchmen faced the official opening of the new TV season with time on their hands. At week's end NBC was still trying to find sponsors for 4¼ unsold nighttime hours; CBS needed someone to pick up the tab for &; ABC was stuck with 4¾. Competition is so keen that both CBS and NBC are willing to peddle one-shot time spots...