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...America's best hope to counter the trade challenge presented by the oilmen of Araby and the energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were it not for a variety of barriers: outrageous quotas that keep Japanese consumers from buying as much U.S. beef and fruit as they would like, variable tariffs that hold the prices of American foodstuffs in the European Community above those of locally grown items, and the inability of the hungry underdeveloped nations to scrape up enough cash to buy more U.S. meat and grain...
Scientists are changing the nature of crops so fast that, as George Kitahara puts it, "present varieties of fruit trees are obsolete before they are full grown." Consider, for instance, what scientists at the University of California at Davis are doing with the lowly tomato. They have developed a "square" tomato with a tough flat-sided skin that is ideal for both picking by machine and packing for shipment without bruising; it has become the standard tomato for canning. Now agrono mists are close to developing a tomato resistant to the salt that settles in irrigated fields or is blown...
...scenes of Midwood High School, which he attended for three uneventful years, and the playground at Avenue L and East 17th Street where he spent much time as a growing boy. Trying to give us a feel for his background, the camera sweeps past the Orthodox Jews buying fruit at the numerous stands on Avenue J, past the movie house and the pizzerias and the bagel stores, across the colorful, comfortable panorama that is middle-class Brooklyn. Yet even here we are denied glimpses of the essential Allen. We never see or hear from Woody's parents, or teachers...
...they have an electric clock, a sewing machine and two bi cycles. The rooms are adequately furnished: three beds, a desk, a large table, rune chairs, fluorescent-light tube, two big jars for storage of rice and a small glass-topped dresser on which sits a bowl of fruit. After deductions for then-semiannual oil and rice allotments, the Ch'ens earn around $29 a month, though this depends on "work points," earned on performance in the field. They also raise some food - and possibly ex tra cash - on a small private plot...
...century ago, Muncie was an isolated agricultural town, the former headquarters of the Northern Ku Klux Klan. By the time the Lynds arrived in 1924, it was industrialized and dominated by the Ball family, who built a thriving fruit-jar industry as well as the local hospital, Ball State University and most of the rest of town. Its population of 36,000-50,000 by the time of the second Lynd report-was 90% white and 95% Protestant, and struggling to cope with layoffs, a new trend toward secularization, women's voting and flapper ideas about...