Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat the famine, Communist Tung outlined some measures. "By the mountain, eat from the mountain. By the river, eat from the river." Tung ordered the refugees put to work rebuilding the dikes of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, promised loans for seed grains, sent soldiers to work in the fields. Government workers and soldiers were exhorted: "Save an Ounce of Rice." Tung claimed that the "head" of the famine had been dealt with, but admitted that the job had been botched in places. Refugees had been permitted to slaughter or sell irreplaceable work animals. "Bureaucracy," said Tung, "is still strong...
...When the bottom of the bomb is heated to 750°F., and the pressure raised to 15,000 Ibs. per sq. in., the ground quartz dissolves. Its molecules diffuse through the solution. When they reach the cooler top of the chamber, they deposit one by one on the "seed," building it into a perfect, transparent crystal which is more uniform, and therefore more useful, than any made by nature...
Both the physical and emotional setting of the picture are excellent. The young boy, like a seed trying to push roots into barren soil seeks affection, companionship and even faith in his environment. But because Berlin is so desolate and its people reduced to such hopelessness, the boy finds no answer but death. Producer and director, Roberto Rossellini's photography captures perfectly the demolished physical atmosphere of war-term Berlin, while the plot progression skillfully works out the emotional sterility of most of the characters...
...rich Canadian farmlands in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The Canadian growers were gleefully doing their biggest export business in years. Even after U.S. Customs collected 37½? duty on every 100-lb. sack for the first million bushels of table potatoes and the first 2.5 million of seed potatoes and twice as much duty on all subsequent potatoes, the Canadian spuds were cheaper than the homegrown subsidized ones...
...milk rain from these reluctant clouds, said Langmuir, is to seed the air with particles of silver iodide, on which moisture condenses easily. When enough nuclei are present, snowflakes form on them at a comparatively low level. This condensation releases heat, which makes the air rise faster. The resulting turbulence tears the snowflakes apart. The fragments grow into larger flakes, releasing still more heat. The meteorological "chain reaction" turns the cloud into a violent thunderstorm that dashes torrents of rain on the ground below...