Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There's So Little . . ." This week on the farm of Rene Muzart, the wheat was being harvested under the protection of troops with a Patton tank. When the harvest is finished, the tank and the soldiers will go elsewhere. So the Muzarts are leaving their farm-perhaps forever...
Another wheat harvest is gathering momentum, adding inexorably to the $3.5 billion worth of government-owned farm surpluses already piled up in granaries and storage warehouses...
...wheat problem will get worse before it gets better. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson predicted that this year's U.S. crop will total 999,561,000 bushels, almost 100 million more than predicted only two months ago. While 15% below last year, because of acreage reductions, the harvest would still be 140 million bushels more than the U.S. expects to need for domestic and foreign markets. Barring some unforeseen new demand, the record U.S. wheat stocks of 875 million bushels (previous record: 1942's 631 million) will top a billion a year from...
...long jump was taken by Eliot Atkinson who after graduation "did a number of things, from being a harvest hand in the west to working in investment banking, real estate, and construction . . ." Atkinson is today an artist and musician...
Staggering Goal. As facts about the venture in Kazakhstan seeped out of Russia, outside experts were struck by two things in particular: 1) the declared goal was staggering-to make over 32 million acres of land, and to plow, sow and harvest 18 to 20 million tons of grain there within only two years; 2) the Kremlin was willing to rob its established farmlands of machinery and its factories of manpower to exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka...