Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because it has all but crowded out open-pollinated corn in the corn belt...
...Manpower. The half-billion acres of fertile U.S. land, where almost any kind of food will grow, make six million farms. Tractors, combines, hybrid corn, better animal breeding-story-book developments-have boosted production 40% above that of World...
...basic human themes are woven into this story of people adrift in the currents of war--love for a woman and love for a country. But with almost depressing inevitability the picture shifts the emphasis of the best-selling novel, until by the end, it is obvious that the hybrid product is more the work of Hollywood than Eric Knight...
...Markham came to the subtlest and most primal of continents when she was four, to a farm that was painfully hacked out of the dense Kenya forests near Nairobi. Her principal childhood companions were her hard, taciturn, horse-breeding father, some half-naked Negro huntsmen and a ferocious bulldog hybrid named Duller, who somehow survived abduction (from the foot of little Miss Markham's bed) by a leopard, which...
...most likely Republican nominee against Bennett is Thomas E. Dewey. Last week Dewey was having troubles. His backing was lukewarm, thus far. Some wiseacres thought Bennett's election was a sure thing if New York's hybrid American Labor Party would support him. And Democratic bosses were pretty sure that A.L.P. support would follow the President...