Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacle of chronic agricultural overproduction at home, find it hard to believe predictions of a future in which famine stalks a world too populous for the planet to feed. On the contrary, there is evidence that the future may not be so dire. This year's worldwide harvest is the greatest in history for the second straight year. And there are hopeful glimmers from the Rockefeller Foundation's experts that the world is making great strides toward feeding itself...
Mexico in 25 years has gone from importing food to becoming self-sufficient. Indeed, new breeds of Mexican wheat have gone to Turkey for the production of a huge new crop, to India, whose wheat harvest will leap 25% this year, and to Pakistan. If the winter rains are right, Pakistan will become self-sufficient in wheat next April for the first time. A new U.S. Department of Agriculture "doublecross" hybrid has made Kenya self-sufficient in corn. In Southeast Asia, the newly developed IR8 rice strain has been tested in Thailand, South Viet Nam, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines...
...refugees still inside their houses were incinerated. Many of those who had had time to get down into dogholes beneath the houses were asphyxiated. Spraying fire about in great whooshing arcs, the Viet Cong set everything afire: trees, fences, gardens, chickens, the careful piles of grain from the annual harvest. Huts that somehow survived the fiery holocaust were leveled with grenades. Then the hoses of fire were sprayed down inside the exposed burrows. Later, the Communists incinerated a patch of the main town just for good measure...
...present Crimson squad thus represents the first full harvest of the new generation. Tonight's roster of seven seniors, six juniors, and four sophomores is an almost perfect distribution of leadership, experience, and fresh talent...
...multimillion agricultural empire. Late fruits reached canneries at the same time as on-schedule tomatoes, causing so much of a jam that a great deal of fruit spoiled while it was waiting to be canned. Farmers, with their orchards maturing late, had no schoolchildren available to help harvest the crops, and the supply of temporary Mexican labor has been reduced since the law covering the use of braceros was tightened three years ago. Governor Reagan angered unions by permitting convicts to help with the harvest...