Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bellowing Guernsey, Jersey and Hoistein heifers were swung aboard a ship, Puerto Rico-bound. They were the first tangible results of the most down-to-earth postwar plan devised by a U.S. church. The church was the Brethren (Dunkers*), most of whose 185,000 members are farmers. The project: raising heifers to send to postwar Europe to replace depleted stock, help feed hungry Europeans...
Under an Almond Tree. The man behind the heifer project is 50-year-old, grey-haired Dan West, who owns a farm near Goshen, Ind., but who spends most of his time traveling around the country for the heifer program. Son of a Brethren preacher, he thought up the heifer plan under an almond tree in Murcia, Spain, where he was engaged in relief work during the Spanish Civil War. Spain's undernourished children, with less milk than a Hottentot, inspired him with the thought of importing U.S. cows to Spain...
...heifers must be bred before shipping. Thus there may be two heifers or a heifer and a bull by the time the original heifer gets abroad. West says that, after the war, the Brethren will send heifers anywhere they can-to Japan and Germany, if possible. To West the project is not so much a matter of increasing depleted European dairy herds as it is a means of saving lives and helping the Brethren to practice what they preach...
Said Pastor Low: "To take white youngsters off the city streets is ordinary, but to accept Negro youngsters in the home isn't done every day. . . . It's going to be a worth-while project for us church folk who are quite content to give money and to say prayers so long as neither bring these people too close or cause us too much personal effort...
...most probable "developments": the pipeline may be resurrected as a project of U.S. oil companies with concessions in oil-rich Arabia. The U.S. would lend them an estimated $130-165 million to build the line from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, probably to Haifa in Palestine...