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Efficiency fell off so badly that in Shensi province, members of four communes assigned to reap grain left nearly 300 tons of wheat to waste in the fields. Inevitably, too. the peasants lost interest in selling their crops; according to the Peking People's Daily, the amount of produce kept by China's peasants for their own use jumped 146% last year...
...recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...
...most with FHA-insured mortgages), a fuel-distribution company selling to farmers (who often use gas unstintingly because of a 2½-per-gallon rebate on federal taxes). But it is from his more direct agricultural interests that Ray Garvey and his big family (four children, 18 grandchildren) annually reap enough of the golden crop to stagger the imagination-and he does it without bending either the letter or the spirit of the nation's farm support laws...
THIS means the great landed estates will be broken up throughout Latin America," said a top U.S. sugar broker last week, as Fidel Castro signed his agrarian reform decree. The Castro bill quickened Latin America's deep yearning to reap a better living from underdeveloped land. The Venezuelan Cabinet, for example, moved ahead with a land reform bill...
Club president, Bill Morse, who played in the fall contest, feels that the team does, however, have a good chance for victory, since it has received much added strength in the five starters who played football this fall. The Tigers, though, cannot reap the benefit of such ex-gridders, for it is the policy of the Princeton football coach to forbid all of his proteges, except seniors, from participating on the rugby team...