Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They came from every part of the globe, speaking a babble of tongues and carrying little but hope as luggage. From 1840 on, they arrived in a wave that was perpetually at flood tide, furnishing the growing U.S. with the sinew and spirit to build its railroads and create its industries. Often they faced a grinding struggle for survival in the New World's harsh slums and wind-whipped prairies, but somehow the immigrants managed to take root. Out of their extraordinary exodus - which John F. Kennedy called "the largest migration of people in all recorded history" -rose...
When the talk turns to traffic, people love to speak bleakly of Gordian gluts that move like glaciers, of an ever-rising tide of blood on the roads, of a dark future in which cars multiply until they plate the nation's surface with two-ton steel locusts belching exhaust fumes that turn the sky shroud-grey. Any one man's traffic experience on a bad day can make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through...
...currencies to the new reserve fund, would share in both the rewards and burdens of serving as banker to the world. And the increased supply of reserves would ease the pressure on the dollar because 1) the U.S. could easily borrow the new reserve units when it needed to tide over balance-of-payments debts, and 2) foreign dollar holders could exchange their excess dollars for the new reserve units instead of for U.S. gold...
...Flood Tide of Plenty. That lesson has never been more conclusively demonstrated than in the summer of 1965. This month and next, despite three decades of heroic federal efforts to limit the land's insistent bounty, farmers from ocean to ocean and border to border will harvest the largest crop in the nation's history-1.4 billion bu. of wheat, up 7% from last year; 4.1 billion bu. of corn, up 15% ; 961 million bu. of oats, up 9% ; 624 million bu. of grain sorghum, up 27% ; 120 million tons of hay, up 3% ; 864 million...
Such a flood tide of plenty is enough to feed and clothe half the world-and, under the Food for Peace Program, $1.7 billion worth will, in fact, find its way to some 100 million people, provide school lunches for 40 million schoolchildren, help stave off famine and political unrest the world over. The residue, added to the nation's vast stockpile of surplus commodities, will merely compound what urban Americans have long accepted as "the farm mess...