Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There might have been more rejoicing if the experts had not remembered the sad case of DDT, whose use has developed in many places new breeds of resistant insects. Forewarned by this disturbing experience, they gathered seed from some of the hardy Johnson grass survivors and tried the effect of 2,4-D on the second generation. It was just as they feared. Twice as many grass seedlings poked through the soil and twice as many grew to full, pestiferous maturity...
...million Levitt & Sons, Inc., Bill pays himself $125,000 a year; Architect Alfred, who owns the other 50%, draws the same. Father Abe, who now spends his time landscaping, is paid $60,000 for being what some Levittowners call "vice president in charge of grass seed." From outside interests (e.g., the California timber stands and two country clubs which are operated in connection with the Levitts' more expensive Strathmore developments) the brothers get another $150,000 a year apiece. And when they sold 4,028 of Levittown's rental houses (leaving them only 1,600 rental units...
...farm families. On a 12,000-acre research center at Beltsville, Md., department scientists tamper with Nature herself. They produce apples that won't crack, bananas that won't spot; they talk of corn that will yield 200 bushels to the acre (present average: 39), grain seed that can be planted in the spring and left untended until harvest time...
Before the war, when Ben Kuroki helped his father raise sugar beets and seed potatoes on a farm in Hershey, Neb. (pop. 487), nobody paid much attention to the color of Ben's skin. The day after Pearl Harbor, Kuroki enlisted. On the train to camp, he heard for the first time what became an agonizingly familiar question: "What's that Jap doing in the Army?" To answer it, Japanese-American Ben Kuroki volunteered as an Air Force gunner...
...much of the Southwest, power companies, water districts, even farmers and cattlemen are hiring rainmakers to seed the reluctant clouds. Langmuir presented evidence that such overenthusiastic use of silver iodide has already prevented rain in certain areas...