Word: krylov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvesting. Watching the spectacle from a vantage point overlooking his 65,000-acre farm stood white-thatched Thomas Donald Campbell, 76, the world's biggest wheat farmer, and two astonished guests. The guests: Dmitry Omelyanenko, 48, Vice Minister of Agriculture of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and Mikhail Krylov, 28, an agricultural economist, both members of an eleven-man Russian agricultural mission invited by the U.S. State Department to visit American farms...
...trucks about 50,000 bu. a day. Now they stepped up their pace so briskly that the trucks had to race to keep up with them, by day's end had harvested 61,340 bu. to set the world's record. Hatless in the 90° heat, Krylov ignored the official interpreter, barraged Campbell with questions in English. Both Russians tested the chaff spewed from the combines for any wheat kernels that might have been missed, rode the combines, fingered the dirt and the grain, expressed admiration for U.S. conservation methods. When told that Tom Campbell...
...million tons of grain there within only two years; 2) the Kremlin was willing to rob its established farmlands of machinery and its factories of manpower to exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka, the poor simpleton who patched a hole in the elbow of his coat by cutting a piece of cloth from the cuff, patched the new hole by cutting away the coattails, finally went about in a coat cut shorter than his vest...