Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chilling flesh-and-blood story of what life can be like in the ghetto slums of large U.S. cities. The Senators got an uncomfortable view of places where people have to hustle for pocket money and a moment's pleasure, where honesty's reward is hunger, and where prostitution, illegitimacy and crime are socially accepted ways of life. Chairman Ribicoff was moved to ad mit: "We seem to be talking about two different worlds...
...ancestry back more than 130 years to the founding in 1835 of the New York Herald by James Gordon Bennett Sr. and the founding in 1841 of the New York Tribune by Horace Greeley. Bennett's Herald was a lively penny paper that taught U.S. journalism to hunger for fresh news. The Herald sent boatloads of reporters to meet arriving ships at sea; by the time a ship landed they had already interviewed the passengers for European news. And it was the Herald that sent Stanley after Livingstone. Greeley's Tribune, on the other hand, was urbane, circumspect...
...considers "The Struggle to End Hunger" [Aug. 12] as important a problem as any in our time, I am impressed by the balance and comprehensiveness of your fine Essay. I agree that only by combining expanded U.S. output with agricultural self-help in developing lands can we hope to avert world famine...
...short-range solution to hunger overseas is more U.S. food, the long-range answer must be the export of technology, along with capital and brains to see that it is applied wisely. The rest of the world needs to catch up with the mechanization and efficiency of U.S. farms. Half the world's tractors operate in North America. California rice growers have gone so far as to plant, fertilize and spray their crops entirely from planes. A single U.S. farm worker now feeds 37 people, nearly twice as many as he did only a decade ago. And despite rising...
Vital as research is, victory over hunger also demands that backward countries scale new heights of social, political and economic organization. As the U.S. example shows, it takes vast amounts of capital-$30,500 per U.S. farm worker v. $19,600 for an industrial worker. Some experts figure that developing countries must invest $80 billion before 1980 just to feed their growing populations at today's unhappy level. Beyond that, there is a need for chains of agricultural-research centers and schools abroad, partly staffed by an army of young U.S. technicians-one Congressman would call them the "bread...