Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what their -exported crops earned. The effect: a fattened peso return for agriculture. Planting and animal breeding zoomed. The cattle population is up from a low of 40 million to 49 million, i.e., 2½ head for every Argentine v. one-half in the U.S. This year's wheat harvest was 36% greater than last year's. Exports poured out, earned Argentina $944 million in 1956 v. $928 million in Perón's last year...
...valiantly that there was "absolutely no cause for alarm," planes airdropped rice to remote mountain villages. Grain shipments from the U.S. were stepped up to two shiploads every three days, and government officials announced that they hoped to get the U.S. to deliver all 3,500,000 tons of wheat in two years instead of three...
...sets in U.S. homes. But the great breakthrough in electronics came in 1948. Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered the transistor, which took over many of the functions of temperamental glass vacuum tubes. Along with other new semiconductors such as power diodes and capacitors, some as small as a grain of wheat, it opened up a vast new field of miniature components for better machines. Made out of solid materials, the new components were less susceptible to heat, dust and vibration, had but a fraction of the weight and bulk of old-fashioned tubes. Equally important, science also learned to replace...
...riverbanks. In 1947 the government of President Miguel Alemán began construction of the $12 million Alvaro Obregón Dam on the Yaqui River, in Sonora state. Finished in 1952, it soaked more than 543,000 acres in the valley below, created a treasure house of cotton, wheat and California-sized vegetables. In 1955 the $8,000,000 Mocuzari Dam was completed near Alamos, also in Sonora state. With its irrigation system finished, 197,000 acres have grown lushly green under a first planting of cotton and wheat...
...land. In 1922, some 5,000 of the Canadian Mennonites arrived at the isolated railroad station of San Antonio de Arenales and set to work transforming the prairie. The job was not done easily. Water flowed into their wells from a, huge underground lake, but even with irrigation, wheat, their customary crop, refused to flourish. The revolutionary Pancho Villa still held sway in Chihuahua, and the surrounding hills swarmed with his fierce Villistas, who learned soon that the Mennonite men would not raise their fists in anger. Time after time the Villistas forayed down from the hills to rape...