Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chip off the old block when he took a second wife, but the resemblance was short-lived. A conscientious family man with a keen interest in a balanced budget, the young Maharajah shipped his first wife into retirement, settled down contentedly with his second, to collect, not concubines, but seed catalogues and brochures on farm machinery. Stripped in 1948 of his autocratic rule by the establishment of independent India, Yadavindra happily assumed the responsibilities of his new role as a salaried civil servant ($105,000 a year plus an allowance of $250,000), devoting his days to the raising...
...clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted in the subsoil of neo-Naziism−bad soil, even if not bad seed...
...Increased use of farm machinery, fertilizers, insecticides and high-grade seed...
...reputation as a center of radical ferment for new fame as a high producer of wheat and potatoes. Last week, after unseasonal frosts had ruined the potato crops in the 12,000-ft. highlands, Ucureña easily supplied an extra 200 tons of top-quality seed potatoes to plant an out-of-season crop in the lower valleys. Black-haired José Rojas, now 43, and Moon are mutual admirers, and Rojas refuses even to comment on the bad old days when he was anti-U.S. "Instead of the vague promises of the Communists," explains Joaquin de Lemoine...
...John Dewey Allen, 58, onetime messenger at the New York Produce Exchange (oils, fats, grain, seed, feed, flour), was elected the exchange's 59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...