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...found a crewman with his fist in a hole in the side of the ship-holding back the Yangtze's waters. While scraping paint, the sailor had punched a hole clear through the tinny sides of America's first destroyer. Recalls Hersey: ''We stuffed a potato in the hole, covered it with concrete and prayed...
...pesticides would cost a major part of many crops; a 20-year study proved that cotton yields would be cut by 40%. Production of many kinds of fruit and vegetables would be impossible; unsprayed apple trees, for instance, no longer yield fruit that is sound enough to be marketed.*Potato fields swept by the Colorado beetle or late blight (the fungus that caused the great Irish potato famine of 1846) yield hardly any crop...
...supplying them in all sizes and shapes. There are 41 of them in all, seating a total of 11,290 diners (the seven kitchens occupy nearly an acre and contain such housewifely nightmares as dishwashers capable of sterilizing 15,000 pieces of glass or crockery an hour and potato-peelers that can skin 75 potatoes a minute). Very Important People may be whisked upstairs in a private automobile elevator without setting foot on sidewalk...
Without a word the man begins to water a patch of sweet-potato plants. Without a word the woman climbs down to the boat again, rows across to the mainland, trudges off to the spring, fills her pails with water, trudges back to the boat, rows across to the island, struggles up the path, climbs down to the boat...
...machinery and military divisions to stick to specialties where the volume is not large enough to attract competition from the giants in the field, or where profit margins are good. Thus FMC has steered clear of big farm equipment such as heavy tractors, instead makes such items as potato harvesters. While the major defense firms chased glamorous missile contracts. FMC went after, and got. contracts for ground support equipment...