Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico's farm land was held by 836 owners. Today 65% of the old haciendas have been divided into cooperatives, the rest given to small farmers. But now even in well-reformed Mexico, the need to feed a suddenly ballooning population grows daily-along with a peasant land hunger fanned by the propaganda of Fidel Castro...
...twin pressures of hunger and desire are increasing throughout Latin America, making the land reform the No. 1 issue. Panama wisely began an integrated plan of land development in 1956; Venezuela, starting in 1959. has already moved 30,000 new farm families onto 2,500,000 acres under President Romulo Betancourt's crash program. Brazil's Janio Quadros and Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo are pushing comprehensive reform and agrarian-development laws through their Congress...
...echo a hearty "Amen" to the remarks of Dr. Samuel Howard Miller in the article "Hunger of the Heart" [TIME, June 16]. The need is indeed great for a critical re-examination of ancient religious dogma...
...days, the Soviet Union promised us 10,000 tons instead of 50,000 tons-15 days' supply of wheat to be delivered in September and October!" This, declared Hoxha bitterly, was "unbearable pressure. The Soviet rats were able to eat while the Albanian people were dying of hunger...
Modern jet airliners have a monstrous hunger for real estate. Their take-offs and landings are so fast that they eat up runways two miles long. But Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co. is getting ready to put the big birds on a skimpy diet. Boeing's latest passenger plane, the three-jet 727, will be fitted with special wing flaps designed to get in and out of smallish airports with ease...