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...time when most universities were bitterly complaining about their dwindling gifts, Harvard's news looked big. In the last quarter of 1949, it reported last week, the university received $2,749,007 in gifts. Fair Harvard had to admit, however, that this was only a fair harvest for 90 days. The previous quarter's total: more than...
...little common sense into all this "natural childbirth" farrago [TIME, March 13]. Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read and his cohorts have got women feeling that they're hopeless neurotics if they don't have their baby between the bean-rows and get back to the harvest in 15 minutes...
Barring bad weather, the greatest surplus will be in wheat.* Although acreage is being cut 14%, the cuts are being made in the poorest land. By planting wheat on their best land and using more fertilizer, farmers will harvest an estimated crop of 1,185,000,000 bushels, some 40 million more than last year's bumper harvest. Much the same thing can happen in the corn fields. Corn farmers may plant only 82.7 million acres, their smallest sowing in 50 years. But sunny skies and hybrid seed can easily produce another bumper crop this year...
...well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area, and no claim to relief. For some, only federal surplus foods staved off actual starvation. With the onset of tireless, efficient mechanical picking machines and the growing influx of unemployed from the cities, their numbers were swelling again to the highest figure since the days of the Joads...
...China now has 7,000,000 famine refugees." Then Tung quoted a proverb: "It is the tail of the famine," he said, "rather than the head, that should be dreaded." Tung was warning his hearers that the next three months would be crucial. After that, the June harvest of winter wheat and the first rice crop would bring food...