Word: yielded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April for the first time. A new U.S. Department of Agriculture "doublecross" hybrid has made Kenya self-sufficient in corn. In Southeast Asia, the newly developed IR8 rice strain has been tested in Thailand, South Viet Nam, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines and in some cases increased the annual yield twentyfold. The world's food experts are taking heart, though the sense of urgency remains...
...their 1966 level of 191,625 cars. By year's end, sales of the company's cars, as well as its heavy duty trucks, buses and engines, which account for more than 40% of its business, should easily match last year's record $1.26 billion, yield more than $20 million in profits. And its exports to 160 countries will rise by 9% to 100,000 cars. Recession? Scoffs Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler's 53-year-old chief: "We at Mercedes were ready...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of admissions and financial aid, expects that this increase will continue and eventually yield a record 7900 applications for the class...
...competes with the whir of machines, and the average worker gets $2.60 an hour for a 35-hour week. The improvement is reflected throughout industry. Before World War I, the average American factory worker earned the equivalent in today's dollars of $26 a week, while his current yield is, on average, about $115. Put another way, the worker in the earlier period had to work one hour and 35 minutes to buy a dozen eggs; for the same eggs now he spends twelve minutes on the job. A man's suit, which cost him 75 hours...
...must show an internal passport when he travels within his own country. A Russian spends much of his free time standing in queues, where he must push and heave to defend his place. Partly because of boredom, alcoholism is widespread; every park in Moscow has its nightly yield of inert bodies that are dragged off to sobering-up stations...