Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production had been brought about by jettisoning all capitalist notions of expertise and turning instead to Mao-think. The New China News Agency reported that "China reaped the biggest grain crop in its history this year." (Western experts calculate a shortfall of 5,000,000 tons in the Chinese harvest for 1966.) The Agency also cited a "new leap forward" in iron and steel output as a result of "a mass movement to storm the technical citadels...
Tuesday, December 20 CBS REPORTS: HARVEST OF MERCY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt and Winston Burdett report on this year's famine in India and the massive rescue effort, headed by the U.S., that has saved an estimated 70 million Indians from starvation...
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "The World Beneath the Sea," first of two parts examining the work of marine biologists at Miami University who are working to increase the food harvest from the three-fourths of the earth that is ocean...
...Sake, So!" To some extent, India's dark mood stems from the hopelessness of the country's economic situation. Reports from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh suggested that the fall harvest throughout India is falling far short of expected goals-grim warning of a repeat of last year's food crisis, when the country was saved from outright starvation only by the shipment of 10 million tons of U.S. food. The current bitterness also seems to reflect widespread dismay over the failure of political leaders to provide dramatic remedies for India's huge problems...
...increasing size of foreign-aid shipments of food to famine-threatened nations, the wheat surplus has dropped since 1963 from 32.5 million to 15.2 million metric tons, is now below the minimum needed as insurance against domestic crop failure. In addition, bad weather reduced this year's harvest. Speaking at the Miami convention of the National Association of Food Chains last week, Boston Supermarket Executive Gordon F. Bloom said: "American consumers have grown accustomed to low food prices based on surpluses that are no longer with us. The honeymoon is over...