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Another problem is whether farmers can keep up the rate of technological innovation that has made U.S. agriculture the productivity wonder of the world. So far, agricultural tinkerers are continuing to develop new techniques and devices. One of them: a herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...nobody bid on the two-week vacation in a nudist colony. Orlando's (Fla.) PESO (Participation Enriches Science, Music and Art Organizations), which raised $162,000 at its auction last year, had no trouble disposing of 50 tons of orange-grove fertilizer and a $2,500 orange-grove sprayer. And in Phoenix this year, such items as hernia and cataract operations, stud service by a registered Appaloosa stallion, and an old covered wagon (donated by Barry Goldwater) brought in $246,000 to COMPAS (Combined Metropolitan Phoenix Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benefits: The Everything Auction | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...with his family in 1952, he spent several years in its fish-ponds, sloshing waist-deep in water, hefting loads of squirming carp. Then he transferred to supervising the citrus orchards. He spent long days pruning dead limbs off grapefruit trees, or pacing the orchards' endless rows with a sprayer...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Israel: The View From a Kibbutz | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

Most of those who militate in Tacuara (average age: 17) are the fanatic children of families that lost their wealth during and after Peron. Tacuara Leader Ezcurra Uriburu, scion of a once-proud family, works days as a paint sprayer in a motorcycle repair shop and blames the Jews for the country's problems. "We are against a society permeated and dominated by Jews," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Resurrecting the Swastika | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...faithful readers bought tickets in advance. Heloise's column now appears in two mainland dailies. She has published a pamphlet of labor-saving household tips (the first edition of 5,000 sold out in three days), and is in steady demand as a lecturer. Still an inveterate hair sprayer, she has changed color at least nine times-including blue, purple and green-since Editor Chaplin first saw her in her argent mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Island Rapport | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

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