Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crash program of agricultural aid. Though industrial projects already un der way ($5 billion worth of them) will be allowed to reach completion, the heavier effort for the next few years will go into quick-yielding small projects for farmers - wells, irrigation and roads. This year's harvest gives him a breather: 87,200,000 tons of grain have been cut and winnowed...
Plucked Arm. Last year Gardner became chairman of Johnson's special task force on education which, the President reported last week, "helped to plant the seed bed of the education harvest that has been produced by the 89th Congress." Recommendations by the task force formed the basis for key sections of Johnson's $1.3 billion federal-aid-to-education law passed this year. A month ago, an aide strongly recommended Gardner to Johnson as a replacement for Celebrezze-and Gardner started undergoing the well-known Lyndon look-over...
Depressed Market. Fidel's impatience was understandable. In the past five years, per-capita income has dropped 15% in Cuba. After an abortive attempt at crash industrialization, Castro has again turned priority effort toward sugar, Cuba's one cash crop. The current harvest has produced a healthy 6,000,000 tons. Trouble is, so much of it (4,800,000 tons) has already been committed-to Russia, Red China and other countries, under barter agreements-that only 800,000 tons are left, after domestic needs, to sell for badly needed foreign exchange...
...bitter contrast, skyrocketing food costs leave the average citizen poorer than ever. Though the 1965 harvest well exceeds last year's, rice prices have risen by a third since January. Much of the profit is pocketed by Saigon's Chinese merchants, who callously corner the markets in scarce commodities. So rather than exporting rice this year, South Viet Nam has been forced to import fully 50,000 tons from...
...course, are the fault of the Viet Cong. Outside the capital, the Communists concentrate on cutting supply lines. The railroad to Hue, South Viet Nam's ancient Buddhist center far to the north, has not been used for a year. Route 4, over which most of the rich harvest of the Mekong Delta moves to Saigon, is mined with jolting frequency. The road from mountainous Dalat-source of the capital's vegetables and fruit-can be traversed only by army truck convoys. On back-country roads last week, the Viet Cong coolly halted traffic, confiscated bikes, cars...