Word: rice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vietnamese land reform was a bloody business in which a whole uniformed army of reformers had marched into peasant areas, declared martial law, stripped tiny landholders of their farms, and shipped thousands off to prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet...
...that runs from Paris to the Riviera was canceled-setting off a cry of anguish from Riviera hotelkeepers, who estimate tourist traffic is already off 75%. Housewives caught the panic, and driven by the memory of what items were scarce in World War II, stripped shops of soap, candles, rice, canned goods and sugar (though France actually has a sugar surplus). Premier Guy Mollet pleaded for calm and discipline, scolded: "During the last few days, a new wave of fear seems to have broken over part of France...
...southward encroachment of the Sahara Desert. Scientists suspect that it was also draining away through an underground outlet. As Chad was transformed into a wilderness of swamplands and papyrus jungles, its water level dropped to a point where it no longer flowed out through the Bahr el Ghazal. Rice farmers along the river banks and the lake's once-fertile shores packed up and moved southward. With the maximum depth of the lake down to 22 feet, the French set up the Commission Scientifique de Tchad to study ways of preserving the livelihood of the 200,000 people still...
Blessing in Abundance. Bitingly, he pointed to a decline in cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...
...their typhoon-proof but half-flooded houses, World War II Quonset huts were hurled into paddies and wrapped around telegraph poles. Thirty-five hours later, Okinawans found 7,000 homes and 80 public buildings totally destroyed, 27 fishing boats wrecked. Gone was 40% of the island's precious rice crop, 80% of the sweet-potato crop, and 60% of the sugar cane. Estimated damage to U.S. military installations: $10 million...