Word: harvest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coffee (instant) and a white cake (made from ready-mix) and ice cream topped off the meal. Mrs, Holstein's harvest from husband and guests: a burst of praise (spontaneous) for her "home-cooked" meal. Such jiffy cooking would have made Grandma shudder, but today it brings smiles of delight to millions of U.S. housewives. The remarkable rise of "conven-ience" or processed foods-heralded by the slogans "instant," "ready to cook" and "heat and serve"-has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen. It has freed the housewife...
Today, two-thirds of the world's population lives in areas that produce only one-third of the world's food. In parts of Algeria in the weeks just before harvest, peasants and their families subsist on acorn biscuits or boiled juniper berries. In Latin America, per capita agricultural production is nearly 6% lower than it was before World War II, and in Asia it is 10% lower...
...standard of living, Formosans are second only to Japan in the Far East. Model land reforms have helped raise agricultural production to 50% above prewar levels; the rice crop measured 1,894,000 metric tons last year, 680,500 tons over the 1949 harvest; canned-pineapple production has sextupled in nine years, and sugar output is up some 30%. With tripled electric-power capacity, hundreds of new factories turn out textiles, bicycles, gasoline, cement, electric motors and other modern goods...
...president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., a cooperative for 1,079 growers who produce 75% of the nation's 62,000-ton cranberry production. Cranberrymen, he said, have used aminotriazole with care-even before the Agriculture Department set a rule requiring that bogs could be sprayed only after harvest, to prevent contamination of berries. (In 1957 Ocean Spray took more than 3,000,000 lbs. of a suspect crop off the market...
...most of its 460-year history, Brazil was a country of Portuguese masters and Indian or Negro slaves. To harvest the sugar cane, mine the gold, and fell the mighty dyewood (brazil) that gave the country its name, slavers imported sturdy Negroes by the boatload from Africa. Greatest concentration of slave labor was in Salvador, capital of Bahia on Brazil's northeast bulge, which even today is the most African city (pop. 417,000) in the New World...