Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato farmers of south Idaho and to the ranchers of Montana's eastern plains. In lusty growth (its population has swelled by 51% since 1940), it is building new towns and industry on a solid base of natural treasures: rich grainland including the nation's top wheat-producing county (Whitman County, Wash.), lush wild-grass valleys providing year-round range for sheep and cattle, the U.S.'s last great stand of valuable whitepine lumber and huge mineral resources in Washington's Metaline and Idaho's Coeur d'Alene gulches and in Butte...
...power, and by painful dependence on Eastern finance. The sense of a great future and a hard present bred within the region a restless, resentful spirit. From time to time, when Idaho's lead mines shut down, when grain prices fell and Washington's Big Bend wheat fields dried up, native brands of radicalism took hold. Nostrums like Populism were laced with occasional dynamitings; the Northwest was a pre-World War I citadel of the I.W.W. Those days are past, but the tradition remains, and "Eastern finance" is still a repugnant term. The New Deal was credited with...
...morning last October, Jean Narcy, a road mender of Haute-Marne, France, was riding to work on his bicycle. In a wheat field he saw a little whiskered man just under 4 ft. tall, who wore a fur coat, an. orange corset and a plush...
...largest food relief program ever undertaken by U.S. churches was set in motion by the Church World Service, a branch of the National Council of Churches of Christ. Over the next three years, 500 million Ibs. of Government surpluses of wheat, cotton, cottonseed oil, corn, corn products, butter, cheese and powdered milk, with a wholesale value of $150 million, will be distributed free. Administrative and distribution costs will be covered through nationwide "Share Our Surplus" drives...
...Estenssoro took power 2½ years ago, he was less than an even bet to last six months. Bolivia faced starvation, counterrevolution, a serious Communist threat, an empty treasury and a world glut of tin, its only valuable export. The U.S. helped save the situation by sending free wheat and buying tin for the strategic stockpile. Cost of grant-aid to the U.S.: $17 million-10? for each U.S. citizen. Two and a half years later, Bolivia still needs more loans and grants. But it has a better chance than ever before, because it has now completed-with U.S. help...