Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honestus: Controls on farm production are necessary to protect the Government from the consequences of its own price-support programs. The Government supports wheat, cotton and several other major crops at prices so high that it is profitable to grow these crops and turn them over to the Government at the support price. If there were no production controls, then any farmer with enough capital and know-how could grow as much wheat or cotton as he could find land to plant it on, then unload the stuff on the Government. Price supports and controls inevitably go together in agriculture...
Thirteen years ago, Packard persuaded the villagers to let him irrigate 100 acres of their arid, salty plain to grow rice. Within five years. Packard's project in Anthili and other towns had converted Greece from a country that annually imported $5,000,000 worth of rice to a nation that exported $5,000,000 worth-on an initial U.S. investment of $43,000. Other Point Four schemes trained a Greek agricultural staff to teach 8.000 villages such basic matters as tractor maintenance and cheese making, instructed technicians to operate a new electrical power system, reorganized an archaic police...
...generations had no contact with the outside; their inbreeding was said to produce malformed children, and to all Spaniards, Las Hurdes became a synonym for decadence. In the region today, riggers are laying a power line across the valley, a hospital is being built, fruit trees grow in the irrigated fields near a power...
First brought to West Africa by the Portuguese explorers of the 15th century, Christianity penetrated the continent only during the heyday of 19th century colonization. Missionaries were eager to convert, but often reluctant to see their converts grow up to join the clergy. The first Senegalese priest was ordained in 1843-but in 1900 there were only ten native clerics in French West Africa...
...second manufacturer, Aeolian Music Rolls of Glendale. Calif., joined the roll-making ranks 1½ years ago, is currently turning out 1.500 rolls a day. In Palisades Park. N.J., ex-Tugboat Captain John Duffy, 39, who deals in both new and rebuilt player pianos, has seen his business grow from a kitchen-and-basement operation to a 14-man organization in four years. Duffy grossed $220,000 in 1961 and expects to go to $500.000 this year...