Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because, as Richard Rodgers says, "Goddard and his people make you feel a little more appreciated." Lieberson has a good ear for trends-though he can sometimes prove hard of hearing. He thought rock 'n' roll was an undesirable and fleeting fad, refused to record the tunes till Columbia had lost millions of sales. As a result, RCA led Columbia last year in total sales because of its lead in 45-r.p.m. popular "singles...
...first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work was commercially valueless; the seed was too expensive. Not till 1935, after further discoveries by U.S. Department of Agriculture Researcher Donald Jones and commercial seedsmen, such as Henry A. Wallace, onetime (1933-40) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, could commercial seed companies put hybrid corn on the market...
...President extended the voluntary program till March 10, while he and his special Cabinet committee on oil imports study the OCDM recommendations. These are reported to include a limit on imports of crude oil and other petroleum products of 1,025,000 bbl. daily, compared to 1,113,600 bbl. daily under the voluntary system. The compulsory scheme would be enforced by a Government administrative agency. Other recommendations made by OCDM reportedly call for1) a sliding scale of import quotas for smaller oil companies, based on the imports between March1 and Sept.1, 1958; 2) no cuts of more than...
...Shirley (Oklahoma!) Jones, the girl he doesn't get, sound like Renata Tebaldi. But not even the pleasure of catching Cagney at close to his best can entirely appease the sense that this is really an amoral little movie. Not even the greediest hands in labor's till have ever publicly demanded what this picture demands: the right to steal...
...themselves." Young Carter, a part-time prelaw student at nearby George Washington University, insists that he puts in 40 hours a week on the job-although his morning class schedule scarcely permits him to get to the office much before noon-adds that "I stay in the evening often till 6 o'clock...