Word: schemes
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Sharing India's rising alarm, the Ford Foundation last week put up $10.5 million toward a $100 million Indian government pilot scheme for the reshaping of the nation's agriculture. The plan will establish model farming projects in seven scattered regions embracing 10,000 villages and 1,000,000 farmers, with the aim of raising their food production by a breathtaking 50% in five years as an example to the rest of the nation. If the scheme works and its lessons are gradually applied to other areas, India's total food grain output should rise...
...centers to train hundreds of additional agricultural specialists, and construct a network of seed-treatment and soil-testing stations. The government will expand local storage facilities, distribute fertilizer, insecticide and seed for sale to peasants, and create a farm-credit system to help farmers finance their own improvements. The scheme will operate along lines of U.S. soil-conservation projects; farmers who agree to improvement plans will get a package deal of soil testing, fertilization and planting that expert advisers will supervise. "The soil of India has the capacity for vastly increased production," says Forrest F. Hill, head of Ford Foundation...
...Asians by race, then allocates to each a rigid, underprivileged place in society, in which his residence, travel, employment-even his drink-can be determined by government officials. The editor of the National Party's pro-Nazi Die Transvaler during World War II, Verwoerd once fought a humanitarian scheme to provide haven in South Africa for a shipload of Jewish refugees from Germany, likes to boast that none of his seven children were ever bathed or put to bed by a black servant. His main goal is to make South Africa a republic. He plans to hold a plebiscite...
...Australia (pop. 10.2 million) is the biggest industrial nation in the southern hemisphere, boasts an industrial output three times as great as Brazil's (pop. 64 million). Australia's gross national product has rocketed from $5 billion in 1949 to $13.8 billion. Aided by a bold immigration scheme that has brought 1,500,000 Europeans into the country since 1947, Australia is no longer a backwater, but confident of its dynamism and independence. "Nowadays," says a senior Australian diplomat, "we can talk to anybody in the world without any sense of innate inferiority...
...haggling over procedure, table shapes, or agenda. On the very first day, the delegates got down to substance. On the table before the ten-nation commission (five Communist nations v. the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Italy) were two conflicting plans. One was the deceptively simple four-year scheme that Nikita Khrushchev laid before his startled U.N. audience in New York last September. Its terms...