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...that Nikita Khrushchev launched his grandiose "virgin lands" gamble. Part of the plan was to plow up 32 million acres of marginal land in Kazakhstan, and settle it with Communist "pioneers," who were to plant and produce huge quantities of desperately needed grain within two years...
...them from all traces of petroleum and fed them to laboratory animals. Ihe < bugs proved to be an excellent protein concentrate, comparable in nutrient value to fish meal or soya cake. They are rich in B vitamins and lysine, the important aminoacid that is missing from protein made from grain...
...later, you're going to have to replace that worn-out machinery, and it's almost a certainty you will have to pay more for the replacement than you did for the original. When you treat depreciation as profits you're living off your seed grain." One fact that all sides can agree on is that profit margins in the U.S. would be far better if the economy had not expanded at such a slow pace over the last few years. The excess manufacturing capacity that burdens much of U.S. industry helps to keep corporate overhead costs...
...Jaguar auto salesman looked down his nose at the scruffily dressed customer as she peered at a bucket-seat XKE sports model, she sat down, wrote a giant check, and bought it on the spot. Wildly, she dashes across the desert in her Jaguar, as unsecured as a grain of flying sand. "I have no real roots," she says. "Sometimes, when I walk through a suburb with all its tidy houses and lawns, I get a real feeling of nostalgia. I want to live there and hear the screen door slam. And when I'm in New York...
...spoke of agriculture: "In the last 21 months we have not. by any means, solved the farm problem. But we have achieved the best two-year advance in farm income of any two years since the Depression. At the same time we reduced our wheat and feed grain surpluses by 700 million bushels...