Word: grains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MICHAEL W. DUNLOP St. Louis Sir: TIME should take with the proverbial grain of salt the statements of critics as well as protagonists on Viet Nam. For example, you cite Lieut. Colonel Corson as having me proudly announce "the distribution of 150,000 more tons of fertilizer in five northern provinces in 1967, failing to mention that the region's rice production fell by 150,000 tons during the same period...
...could produce a miracle. Most of the country's war-wrecked industry still lay in ruins; the economy was torn by inflation, black markets, and such a food shortage that hungry city dwellers trekked to the country in hordes to barter their clothes and furniture for farmers' grain and potatoes. Neither gold nor a cushion of foreign exchange backed the infant mark. Yet its creation proved to be the essential underpinning of the Wirtschaftswunder that transformed West Germany into Europe's most prosperous power. By last week, as West Germans celebrated the 20th birthday of their postwar...
...China's needs. Shortage of oil cut power to three hours a day in Canton in January, left Peking without heat for much of the winter. Steel and textile production are also down, and only the best weather in a decade last year prevented a fall-off in grain production that would have meant famine in many places...
...present one, even though slowed down by the war with India and a two-year drought, is producing very close to the target of a 6.5%-per-year growth in the overall economy. Agriculture is even overperforming: Ayub's dream of having Pakistan become a self-sufficient grain producer should be realized next year, a year ahead of schedule...
This summer dry, sound-treated seeds be planted outside the laboratory on an experimental farm, where they will sprout, reach maturity and produce the grain yield per plant shows a substantial increase over plants from untreated seed, Dr.Weinberger be11eves, the time may be ripe for practical use of the sound technique For only $300, she says, a sma11 farmer could then buy an oscillator and a speaker to stimulate his wheat seed into highly profitable growth...