Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Clay Courts Championships, and then because of his poor showing was fired from the 1962 Davis Cup team by Captain Robert Kelleher. In the Clay Courts men's finals, Missouri's Chuck McKinley gave U.S. prestige a modest boost by trouncing the top foreign seed, Australia's Fred Stolle...
...years ago, change came to Barsha in the shape of a government organizer from Cairo, who convinced the villagers that they should pool their resources in a cooperative and set up interest-free loans for seed and fertilizer. The government has built a combined school and medical clinic to serve Barsha and other villages (the building is still empty for lack of a technical staff). A circuit-riding doctor pays a once-a-week call at Barsha, and Cairo surprised the villagers last year by passing out free insecticides to combat the cotton-worm blight and, when this failed, paid...
...fats are solid at room temperature, and come from meat or milk. The polyunsaturated fats, notably linoleic acid, are found mainly in fish, marine mammals, and such plant extracts as safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, corn and peanut oils. Only ten years ago, safflower oil was made mostly from imported seed for use in dyes. Today, hundreds of thousands of acres in California, Arizona and Utah grow the thistlelike plant...
...grain-handling equipment. For the new corporation M-F executives cherish vaulting ambitions. One day, they hope, it will offer the world's hungry emerging nations one-stop agricultural shopping in a kind of vast supermarket capable of supplying a farmer with all his needs: implements, farm buildings, seed, fertilizer and free expert advice...
...train. Agricultural economies may be improved by a new network of irrigation ditches. But more ditches mean that more field hands are exposed to a debilitating infestation of flukes, transmitted by snails. In the mushrooming cities of newly developed countries, haphazard water supplies and inefficient sewage disposal seed the bacteria that touch off dangerous epidemics...