Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
...price-prop money, $557,495-35 in soil-bank funds. By comparison, 1,227 farmers in tiny Delaware altogether drew but $917,286 from the soil bank. "The high rigid support program is little more than a Government guarantee on the operations of corporate-type farming," charged Williams, "and actually encourages and underwrites absentee ownership to the detriment of small farmers...
...Continent repercussions were even more violent. Macmillan's misadventure, said Rome's Il Messaggero, proved that "it is impossible to come to an understanding with Soviet leaders of Khrushchev's type." The Adenauer and De Gaulle governments, leary about the trip in the first place, were distressed by the harshness of Khrushchev's action...
...their corn acreage with hybrid corn, got a total yield of 3.4 billion bu.-750 million bu. higher than they could have produced with regular corn. The wonders of hybrid corn are still surprising the scientists. For example, last year Illinois Farmer James Holderman decided to try a new type of hybrid corn, even though the experts warned him it was not suitable for his land. He doubled the amount of fertilizer, planted the rows closer together, and his yield jumped to 175 bu. an acre, compared to an average 70 bu. The corn was so thick that his mechanical...
...other hand, a certain type of House guest, though not initially so appealing, has proved highly desirable. Master Brower calls them "informal teachers"--people in all fields who thrive on close contact with students, and who can stay in the House longer than seventy-two hours...