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...doubt about the results. Although 45% of the plants sown in April came down with Maize Disease, only 3% of the May plants were infected. Similar tests, adjusted for local temperature variations, have also proved successful in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Italy, where corn farmers are learning that they can reap more by sowing later...
...Dramatizing the role it can play, Cat recently completed a test project in Costa Rica demonstrating that modern equipment can clear the densest jungle thicket for about $50 an acre; with older methods, the cost can run as high as $500. Beyond immediate clearing jobs, Caterpillar can expect to reap long-range benefits from seeing foreign countries become agriculturally self-sufficient. Explains Blackie: "If they don't have to import wheat, they can import machinery...
...still ask for it and doctors prescribe it. Who would ask his doctor for sodium pentobarbital, even though it's the same thing chemically? That is the evidence of how well the public is propagandized by the drug concerns, which spend $600 million a year on advertising and who reap a whopping 18 per cent profit annually (more than any other industry according to Fortune...
...family control for the foreseeable future. Meeting in Brussels, the 1,800 partners agreed with courtly Baron Rene Boel, their managing director, that accelerated technological progress and increased competition made it necessary to seek public capital. They voted to ante up $40 million more themselves. Eventually Solvay partners will reap a four-for-one stock split, and since not all of the new shares will be fully negotiable, the family will remain the biggest shareholder in the chemical complex that grew from Ernest Solvay's 106-year-old process for making chemical soda into a company with 30 plants...
...Papandreous refused to back Kanellopoulos, claiming that the National Radical Union had rigged elections in the past and would do so again. Army leaders, on the other hand, were dismayed at the incredible knot tied by the politicians and were ever more fearful that Papandreou would once again reap gains at the polls. Moreover, they knew that Andreas Papandreou had been saying privately: "I am convinced that Greece must have a revolution...