Word: onethird
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar national prosperity. Congress kept attaching gimmicks and gadgets. Meanwhile, what Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls a "technological explosion" has taken place on U.S. farms. The combined impact of more machinery, more fertilizer, deadlier insecticides and higher-yielding hybrid seed has upped overall U.S. farm productivity by onethird since 1940, lowered the number of man-hours needed to produce 100 bu. of wheat from 67 to 26. Since the early 19403, the average U.S. farm investment per worker has soared from $3,500 to more than $15,000. This technological explosion has made the small, unmechanized farm economically obsolete...