Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth-grading machinery were equal to 30% of production; tractors, 23%; textile machinery, 22%; typewriters, 19%; trucks and buses, 16%; refrigerators, 13%; cotton textiles, 9%. U.S. farmers exported the produce of 40 million acres of land-between one-quarter and one-half of all their cotton, tobacco, corn and wheat. About 30% of all U.S. farm marketings are dependent on foreign buyers, and in 1951 farm-export income, divided evenly among U.S. farmers, equaled $1,100 per farm...
...Sept. 30, the U.S. was holding history's greatest hoard of unsold food and fibers: $6.4 billion worth, including 377 million Ibs. of butter, 550 million Ibs. of cottonseed oil, 743 million bushels of wheat, 2,000,000 Ibs. of tobacco...
Cool Answers. The Premier's official mission-aid for Japan-ended on an equally uncertain note. On the eve of Yoshida's arrival the State Department announced that the U.S. was prepared to sell Japan $100 million in surplus wheat and cotton...
...Wheat & Rice. "Pakistan is moving away from democracy," commented the London Economist, "but no democrat who knows the facts would at the moment have it otherwise." The facts are that Pakistan is a "geographical monstrosity" that not only endures but somehow radiates a buoyant young confidence...
...enact a constitution. It has yet to determine the place of religion in the state, though the Moslem faith is really all that binds together the two halves, which are separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India. West Pakistan is arid and Middle Eastern: its people eat wheat, speak Punjabi or Urdu, and supply most of the tough manpower for Pakistan's 250,000-man army and for its permanent civil service. East Pakistan is lush and Southeast Asian: its people eat rice, speak Bengali, and complain that they do not have the influence at Karachi to which...