Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clouds of Dust. A miracle it was not. It was a triumph of technology over nature. For the second straight year, the prairie earth was made to yield more moisture than it received. An almost snowless winter gave way to an arid spring; by June topsoil began to blow in a grim reminder of the Dirty Thirties. "Every time there was a sprinkle." said a Moose Jaw farmer, "I'd go out and kick the soil. All I got was a cloud of dust...
...little like a drama put on for the approval of the gods on Olympus. A long section symbolizing union with the sea might pass for impassioned love poetry. The final evocation is one of renascence: "The javelins of Noon quiver in the gates of joy! The drums of nothingness yield to the fifes of light...
...fear of a new burst of inflation. Many a Wall Streeter shares the Fed's worry, feeling that anxiety over inflation has lifted stock prices too quickly on the basis of current earnings. This has caused a sharp change in the "spread"-the difference between stock and bond yields. As stock prices have risen, bonds have dropped (see below); while the return on blue chips has fallen to 3.8%, the best bonds now yield more than 4%. In the past (1929, 1937, 1946 and last summer), when bond yields topped or equaled stocks, big investors went from stocks...
...growing wheat. When the Russian farm delegation recently asked to see America's best mechanized farm, President Eisenhower, an old friend of Campbell's, asked the Agriculture Department to put them under Tom Campbell's wing. Campbell assured the Russians that they could achieve the same yield by adopting U.S. methods, clinched his argument by revealing that the winter wheat he is growing is actually Russian Kharkov wheat, which he brought back to Montana with him when he returned from Russia...
...true of most plays that some, if not all, of the characters undergo a big change by the time the final curtain is rung down. Here, curiously, every character is just the same at the end of the play as at the start. Yet this does not yield a vacuum. Events do transpire; and the essential elements of conflict and suspense are not lacking...