Word: harvest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specialists estimate that a 1954 harvest 10% lower than 1953's would spread famine through most of China. New grabs of territory, e.g., the rice bowl of Indo-China, might alleviate but would not solve the problem, for it is one of distribution as well as supply...
...Thursday, the MISCELLANY writer goes through his harvest of suggestions, sorts out the promising ones. Usually, he writes about twice the number of items that will see final print. After the item is written, the next step is to give it a heading. Wrote one TIME reader from New Hampshire recently: "Would you please tell me who is responsible for the titles given the various items of your MISCELLANY columns?" Answer: the writer gives the item the heading he likes best, and hopes the editors agree. If they do not, it is changed. This becomes a sort of game...
...laboratory, 2 cc. of fluid containing live polio virus are added as a seed stock to each quart of tissue fluid. Back to the rocker go the bottles. The virus multiplies a thousandfold in the kidney cells, and after about four days the potentially deadly crop is ready for harvest. It is chilled in 2½gal. bottles for trucking from Toronto to Eli Lilly & Co. and to Parke, Davis...
...This has been a fateful week in the history of American Government," said Stevenson. "We are witnessing the bitter harvest from the seeds of slander, defamation and disunion planted in the soil of our democracy . . . Where we looked forward to a nation united, we have a people divided. Where we expected candor, we have misrepresentation. Where we expected firm leadership, we have timidity...
...picked Lieut. Magloire for his aide-de-camp. But Vincent's government stumbled in 1937, when the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, in a moment of rage, let his forces massacre an estimated 15,000 Haitian cane-cutters who had crossed the border to seek harvest work. The Haitian President settled for an indemnity of $550,000 from Trujillo. With murdered Haitians thus officially priced at $37 each, Haiti soured on Vincent, and his government succumbed in 1941. The next President was Elie Lescot, a member of the elite, who chose Magloire first to be chief...