Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production costs of a small-scale, inefficient farmer provides a glorious opportunity for risk-free profit to the large-scale, efficient farmer with his much lower costs of production per bushel or bale. The support price of corn, for example, is $1.25 a bushel, and the big producer can grow corn for less than 70? a bushel. Clearly, if the Government takes the stuff off his hands at $1.25, the efficient farmer can reap a bumper crop of money from growing corn that nobody needs...
...Doppelkinnepidemie, double-chin epidemic, and Hängebauch, or bellyhang. The majority of Germans, from newborn babes to Cabinet ministers, are fatter today than at any other time in this century. A top dietetic authority estimates that 20% of all West Germans are overweight. In a new book titled Grow Thin, but How?, Dr. Andreas Duttler warns: "Corpulence is the dark side of the Economic Miracle...
...fall, Ozawa will be one of the first guest conductors of the Montreal Symphony at the new Place des Arts. Before each concert he eats rice and Japanese vegetables, lest he lose weight and look even younger. "On your beefsteak I lose my appetite," he worries. "I would grow thinner...
Millions of peasants were herded into people's communes and hitched to plows. Peking broke up families, tried to ban money, jerry-built hundreds of "backyard" steel furnaces. The slogan was: "Communism can grow grain and make steel." Through brawn and "revolutionary romanticism" China was to turn almost overnight into an industrialized land. The Great Leap Forward was hailed as a short cut to Communism -and a slap at Moscow. Khrushchev warned that it could not be done. After a few months the experiment indeed collapsed. Gloating over the failure, Khrushchev told visiting Hubert Humphrey that...
...Though 45 acres of good land are the accepted minimum for a viable farm, there are still 208,000 farms (of 360,000) with less than 30 acres each. In the poor western counties, one in three farms is still less than 15 acres, and sons grow old waiting for fathers...