Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunger fighters have already discovered seed strains that offer a vast improvement over what Colombian farmers have planted for years: barley that yields 37 bu. per acre instead of the usual 24, wheat that yields 56 bu. instead of 29 and matures three to four weeks earlier, thus allowing two crops yearly. Tibaitata's scientists are experimenting with a barley that brings 102 bu. per acre, a hybrid corn that yields as much...
...such striving for objectivity that Milton Eisenhower is most valuable to his brother. "The President," he says, "has vast machinery to get evidence on public problems. But in this lonely job it is good for him to have someone who is a good listener and a sympathetic friend who can serve as a sounding board." By mutual consent, his role as friend and sounding board is not a matter for tabloid parade. "We have an understanding," President Eisenhower has told friends, "that we will keep each other's confidences...
...public conclusion that magazine morality no longer demands a ban on booze. Starting with the Oct. 4 issue, it will accept liquor advertising. Said Curtis President Robert MacNeal: "The change in policy is deemed to be appropriate at this time and compatible with the viewpoint of the vast majority of [the Post's'] present and potential audience." Annual revenue increase for the magazine could be in the millions, a big boost for a magazine whose income from advertising during the first half of this year was down $3,570,337 (to $43,264,312) from the same period...
...Brothers' Helen Morgan Story, and this month TV Producer David Susskind announced plans for a $400,000 quickie that would beat the release of MGM's $12.5 million Ben Hur. Said Wald: Hollywood ought to fight back with movies that "in a tasteful manner will show their vast world audiences the disadvantages of buying, using or owning" products made by sponsors of offending TV shows...
...million bill for federal aid to education passed last week is a sweeping reaffirmation of a principle well established by the Morrill Act of 1862, which set up financing for the nation's land-grant colleges, stated again in many lesser measures that followed, and restated in the vast G.I. Bill of 1944. The new measure is a compromise that provides for student loans but no undergraduate scholarships, although Alabama's Senator Lister Hill had asked for 40,000 scholarships, Alabama's Representative Carl Elliott 23,000 and President Eisenhower 10,000. But its passage...