Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fertilizers. In the last 20 years, farming has changed more radically than in the previous two centuries. Once farmers used to dole out fertilizer thinking only of how much it cost them. Now they pour it on by the carload, confident of getting back bigger profits at harvest time. Farm use of fertilizer has risen in 20 years from 1,500,000 tons to 6,200,000 tons. To handle the huge increase in crops, farmers have had to mechanize almost every farm job. From 1938 to 1958, farmers more than trebled their ownership of tractors...
...million to put land in the soil bank, the planted acreage was reduced to the smallest since 1919. But the yield was 11% greater than in the previous record year of 1957. This year, in many crops, the U.S. is headed for even bigger surpluses. The 1959 wheat harvest was forecast last week at 1.2 billion bu. This will add 200 million bu. to the record 1.3 billion bu. wheat carryover expected this July1. With productivity shooting up like the kudzu vine, even veteran farm lobbyists are beginning to wonder if any kind of a subsidized farm program...
...must deal with subscribers who blow apart their telephone lines by firing shotguns out the window (148 such cases in Chicago last New Year's Eve), with farmers who harvest the lines with their crops (corn-picking time is a nightmare for repairmen), with homeowners who are jealous of their picture-window view ("They come at me like a bear," says one foreman, "if they don't like where I put a pole"). He must also be ready for the occasional lonely housewife who meets him in a negligee. Rule of thumb: get out, and come back when...
...week's end Miró Cardona persuaded Castro to take notice of the sugar threat. Castro asked the workers "not to create problems by striking now." But he added that the "sugar magnates" obviously brought on the strikes themselves because they know Cuba needs a successful harvest this year. "They have us at a disadvantage," he snapped...
...Harvest. By the time Khrushchev announced his new agricultural program last month, Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked...