Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southeast Asia. Pakistan, hard-hit by a rice famine, asked the U.S. to set up a food bank stocked with 1.000,000 tons of wheat and rice in Pakistani territory. From it Pakistan and other countries in the region could borrow in emergencies. For a U.S. burdened by wheat and rice surpluses, the plan was attractive if it could be carried out without disrupting Southeast Asia's touchy rice economy. At State the Pak-plan was taken "under active consideration...
Just what was going on, however, fairgoers and critics were at a loss to say. The Russians, back in their refurbished Muscovite pavilion for the first time since 1932, drew the biggest crowds. But the official, Stalin-period art (stocky peasant girls laughingly sheafing wheat) soon drove them away. The U.S. exhibit (TIME, June 18), which collected no prizes, was a hit, mainly because it stuck to one theme: "The City.'' Best that could be said: the Biennale was immense...
...much as a quart of water into fresh-killed turkeys just before freezing. The FDA concedes that there is no such thing as a perfectly clean food. But it is forever inching toward the impossible goal. Up to now, two pellets of rodent excrement in a pint of wheat have been permitted. This week a new and tougher rule went into effect: only one pellet per pint...
...Wall Street office last week, two shirtsleeved Washington State wheat farmers tackled a heroic task in a historic cause. As commissioners of Grant County's tiny (12,805 customers) Public Utility District No. 2, the farmers started signing their names 166,000 times on revenue bonds that will set in motion the nation's third biggest hydroelectric development (after Grand Coulee and Hoover Dams). It will be the first to be built under President Eisenhower's policy of power partnership between private and public utilities. The project: Columbia River dams and power plants at Priest Rapids...
...Diego Naval Hospital, during which he has worked up to 105 hours a week, delivered 50 babies, done 23 hernia operations, snipped 21 appendices and twelve sets of tonsils-altogether 178 operations under supervision of a senior doctor. Early, a down-to-earth son of a South Dakota wheat farmer, has no interest in specializing, feels that good medicine depends on knowing the patients and that the best way to know them is to treat them for everything that ails them-up to the limits of his knowledge...