Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts of cotton abroad to earn foreign exchange. With the onset...
Except for 1958, each harvest has been lower than the previous year's. Worst year of all was 1962, when the virgin lands delivered only half their quotas...
McKay's policies have paid off: since 1951. the number of stakes (dioceses) has risen from 180 to 350, and the annual harvest of converts has risen steadily rom 17,000 to more than 100,000 in 1962. Mormons now open one new chapa week, and are in the midst of a building program that includes a 30-to 40-floor skyscraper on Manhattan's 58th Street, a new 25-story office building m Salt Lake City. "David O " disclaims credit for any of it "The rea son we grow," he says, "is that there is church-wide...
...greens, golds, purples and rich browns had never seemed more luxuriant than this fall. They splashed across the plains and hills in patchwork squares and furrowed curlicues. To harvest their bounty, farmers arose at dawn, gulped down hot breakfasts, climbed onto their great machines and roared onto the fields. Hour after hour they worked, often far into the night. Day after day they labored, until the land was cleared of all but stubble. Then they returned to the fields to prepare them for spring sowing...
...mark of 19.1. North Dakota wheat yielded 28.7 bu., more than twice last year's, and nearly double the ten-year average. Iowa corn came in at 76 bu. per acre, well above the ten-year average of 57.2. Thanks to modern farm technology, the total harvest was wrought from 288 million acres of cropland-10 million fewer than last year. By 1980, when the U.S. will have 250 million mouths to feed, the farmer will be able to produce all the food and fiber necessary for domestic and export use on only 238 million acres...