Word: harvest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their -exported crops earned. The effect: a fattened peso return for agriculture. Planting and animal breeding zoomed. The cattle population is up from a low of 40 million to 49 million, i.e., 2½ head for every Argentine v. one-half in the U.S. This year's wheat harvest was 36% greater than last year's. Exports poured out, earned Argentina $944 million in 1956 v. $928 million in Perón's last year...
...nearly enough to create a more favorable business climate. Chief deterrent to many U.S. firms has been fear of expropriation; unfavorable exchange regulations and discriminatory tax and labor laws have also discouraged U.S. investors. But when a nation has the right climate for U.S. capital, it reaps a rich harvest. Canada, for example, has drawn a total of $6.5 billion in direct U.S. investment v. Mexico's $485 million largely because it has treated American investors far better than the U.S.'s southern neighbor. Capital-hungry countries can also set up central offices to encourage and facilitate private...
...components-basis of a subsidiary electronic science called miniaturization-opened the way to an endless harvest of smaller, cheaper, more efficient labor-saving devices. The first digital computer in 1944 filled an entire room, cost around $1,000,000. Today an equally efficient computer fits in a 5-ft.-by-5-ft. filing cabinet, and sells for less than $200,000. Some day, soon, big computers will be reduced to the size of a shoe box and sell for several hundred dollars...
Waiting for Money. After Morocco got its independence, the economy staggered under the flight of French capital. Industries have slowed down, the tourist trade has fallen off. By unhappy coincidence, drought has parched the fields, and a slim harvest means hunger, discontent, and a flight from the starving countryside into the already bursting bidonvilles. Morocco is also confronted with the need of developing its own administrators, technicians and civil servants (the government's daily business is still conducted by some 11,000 Frenchmen). A crash educational program has been devised: private houses converted into schools, teachers drafted...
...lime-cool portrait of his notary father (opposite), who supported Villon's painting efforts off and on for 30 years. Villon, having refined his palette to the utmost, "touched the earth once again" by returning in 1940 to the vibrant countryside of southwest France. Part of his latest harvest: his superb pastoral illustrations for Virgil's Eclogues (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 6, 1955). Today, at 81, the holder of nearly every award the art world has to bestow, Villon can sum up the goal he has largely achieved: "to express the perfume, the soul of things of which...