Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help harvest it, the bureau has developed outsized, bag-shaped trawling nets and telemetry gear that help pinpoint the schools, which swarm at depths of 300 ft. to 600 ft. Two commercial trawlers recently began using the gear, have been pulling up enormous catches of as much as 120,000 lbs. Last week the bureau offered to outfit a dozen more ships with the equipment, which is worth $14,000, in return for permission to conduct further experiments on board the vessels...
...atrocity against South Viet Nam's 37,000 local officials, more than 1,400 of whom were killed or kidnaped last year alone. Nor are officials the only targets. Two weeks ago in Phu Yen province, where Korean and Vietnamese forces are guarding peasants bringing in the rice harvest, two mine explosions killed 54 farm workers riding in a civilian bus. And in Saigon last week, two claymore mines set off near the back gate of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces Headquarters failed in their mission to kill a major military leader, but did kill five soldiers and seven...
...hearings of the House Agricultural Subcommittee, where experts predicted that "tens of millions will starve." But it is bad enough. The present shortage began after lack of rain ruined many of India's crops, and could develop into a crisis if anything happens to the winter harvest. In that case, even foreign aid might not be able to avert widespread famine, since India's overburdened ports and railways would probably be unable to distribute food fast enough throughout the country. What would then be needed would be a massive grain airlift to drop food into the remote needy...
...Operation Van Buren, presided over by 2,500 troopers of the American 101st Airborne and South Korean marines, aimed at guaranteeing that the rice harvest would get to the peasants west of Tuy Hoa-and not to the Viet Cong...
Even more impressive were the sales and earnings reports that poured in like a gilt-edged harvest from company after company. From post-tax profits of $37.2 billion in 1964, U.S. companies increased earnings last year to $44 billion. The average industrial company's profit increased 13.4%, with the average dividend rising from $2.60 to $2.85. Buoyed by continuing profits from jet aircraft, the air-transportation industry led all others with a 54% increase in earnings. Electronics were up 48%, textiles 45% and TV manufacture...