Word: yield
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These innovations created spectacular crops. Since 1940 the American wheat yield per acre has more than doubled, from 15.3 bu. to 34.2 bu., and the corn output has almost quadrupled, from 28.4 bu. to 109.2 bu. Soybeans, which grow lavishly in the same weather and soil conditions as corn, expanded spectacularly. Production increased from 555 million bu. in 1960 to 2.2 billion bu. last year. While a Soviet farmer grows 45 bu. of corn an acre, his American counterpart produces...
...industry to become competitive almost overnight. Now Chile is shipping refrigerators to Argentina, shoes to Peru and logs to Japan. In the process, the country is transforming itself from a "monoproduct" economy into one in which noncopper goods are now 51% of exports. Forests are being planted with high-yield pine trees; U.S. authorities estimate that by 1990 forest products could become as important as copper to the economy...
Valium and similar antianxiety drugs are commonly prescribed to relieve symptoms of stress. Normally, they yield a feeling of relaxation without inducing marked sleepiness, as barbiturates and alcohol may do. They are derived from benzodiazepine, a chemical whose tension-reducing qualities were discovered by scientists at Roche's U.S. laboratory in Nutley, N.J. While the precise working of the drug remains a mystery, it is known that about 20 minutes after a Valium pill is swallowed, the drug reaches tiny receptors located in the brain's emotion control centers, where it has a calming effect on the central...