Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time the winds subsided last week at least 12,000 people had died in India's most devastating tropical storm since 1971. What had turned the storm into a killer were the 18-ft. tidal waves that swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million...
...information on the Gulf Coast's geopressured zones. In theory, the water from these zones, emerging at a wellhead pressure of 6,000 lbs. per sq. in. and a temperature much above boiling, could spin turbines and yield heat for such purposes as oil refining, food processing and rice drying. The gas that is dissolved underground in the hot water fizzes out of solution at atmospheric pressure to be captured for fuel. The billion-dollar question is whether all this can be done at an economic cost...
...becomes more economically secure, Cambodia is retrogressing. Says Tap Ereth, a former soldier who returned to his village to farm after the fall of the non-Communist government in 1975: "From 6 in the morning until the moon began to rise, the controllers yelled at us to grow more rice. We did grow more, but it was always taken away...
Cambodia has become a net exporter of rice. There is food available, but so much is reserved for export that the standard meal has become fish gruel and banana leaves. Even that is served in communal dining halls, which helps accomplish two government aims: to break up family life and limit opportunities to hoard food, which is needed for escape. Family names are being wiped out in the new order. Cambodians are now referred to by their controllers and the government simply by surname, with the term met (comrade) in front. Comrades are expected to do what they are told...
...packages and cans are made and labeled according to specifications laid down by Jewel. The difference is that unlike the major brands, which usually demand top-grade foodstuffs, the generic products are the cheaper, "standard" quality goods. Thus the green peas are more pebble-sized than petit, the rice is not always whole grain, grapefruit sections are broken and peanut butter contains specks of peanut skins...