Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land reform at all is a mismanaged land reform. In Bolivia, peasants moved into the big landowners' fields after the 1952 revolution, barbecued the livestock and planted only enough crops for their individual families. Land reform failed and now the country, which was once self-sufficient, has to import more than half its food. With the same kind of rush, Fidel Castro grabbed Cuba's richest landholdings, turned most into cooperatively owned ventures. Food production fell immediately, and Castro switched to the Soviet scheme of state-controlled "People's Farms." But the People's Farms...
...British have such a dead-keen sense of humor that they will burst into laughter on hearing that Prince Philip likes to call his wife "Sausage." Perhaps desperate for relief, penny-wise BBC-TV spent $10,000 last week to import Mort Sahl for a single telecast. Treating him on arrival as if he were an uncommitted king, BBC trotted out 30 London TV and drama critics to hear Sahl at a press conference, including the Observer's Kenneth Tynan, who, in a red sport jacket, sat cross-legged on the floor at the comedian's feet, like...
...sights too high are hurting now. Cleveland's officials are disappointed because the Seaway attracted only 25% of the expected new tonnage and not a single new industry. Duluth built a new $9,000,000 port terminal, and though the city's outgoing shipments have risen, its import turnover is off 46% from a year ago. Other regional centers profit in some ways only to lose in others. Buffalo's ocean tonnage has doubled, but its great milling business has sagged because Midwest grain carriers now head straight overseas without stopping at Buffalo. Lake Erie steelmakers enjoy...
...China, which has sagged steadily from the last published figure of $35 million in 1959, is likely to sag even more. Says he: "The immediate outlook for trade with China is discouraging because of natural calamities. This has resulted in China having to spend a great deal on the import of foodstuffs." But he is confident that great new markets still await Jardines in the emergent nations of Southeast Asia. And most old Asia hands, convinced that a prime motive for last week's stock sale was to raise expansion capital, back Barton's judgment of Jardines...
...import of the ideas of all three panelists was best summed up by Alfred's opening quip, which he had attributed to Thomas Mann but later admitted was his own, "If you give the public quality, they will buy quality...