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Most successful, perhaps, has been the Indo-American Point Four program. A bullock-and-plow approach to the irrigation, sanitation, and agricultural backwardness of India's villages, Point Four has proven its value as an instrument of foreign policy. These results, moreover, have cost but 125 million dollars in aid. All but the most ardent Congressional "rathole" theorists have been forced to admit that this relatively small sum has equalled in effectiveness millions for defense spend in other countries...
...cold, thin air. Their wants are simple. If they have any money to spare, they sew it up in a piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth for shirts, plow points, dye, thread, needles, old automobile tires to be cut into sandals, sugar, chocolate, rice, macaroni, aspirin, second-hand sewing machines...
...next morning Orthodox farmers went out to the land once more to plow their weed-choked fields and prune the tangled vines. There were relatively few of them who had made the sacrifice which the Law called for. Israeli government statisticians estimated the total loss in produce at less than...
...been a missionary's wife too long not to recognize their new South Pacific station, October Island, as a "comedown." But she knows better than to complain. To her husband Sam, so dedicated that he has never consummated his marriage, it is simply another "field that awaits the plow of the Lord...
...Koestler it seemed that only the Communists could hold out against them. More generally, the party offered him a release for his "state of Chronic Indignation" at "a polluted society." Even so, a run of irrelevant bad luck at that time had some other "field that awaits the plow of the Lord...